Comparative metaheuristic performance for the scheduling of multipurpose batch plants

Z. D. Bowditch, M. Woolway, T. L. Van Zyl

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Abstract

Two recent publications by Woolway et al. (2018, 2019) [1], [2] proposed a novel metaheuristic framework to optimise the scheduling of Multipurpose Batch Plants. This initial framework implemented three metaheuristic methods to solve the problem with a Genetic Algorithm (GA) showing superior performance over the others. Two notable opportunities for improvement in the current solution are improving the spread/confidence intervals of the percentiles of the solutions discovered by repeated executions of the GAs and faster convergence. This work considers two adaptations of the GA to an attempt to improve overall spread and speed on the application to two well-known literature examples. We have replicated the work in the original papers in a completely new Julia framework along with our extensions.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2019 6th International Conference on Soft Computing and Machine Intelligence, ISCMI 2019
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages121-125
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781728145778
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Nov 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event6th International Conference on Soft Computing and Machine Intelligence, ISCMI 2019 - Johannesburg, South Africa
Duration: 19 Nov 201920 Nov 2019

Publication series

Name2019 6th International Conference on Soft Computing and Machine Intelligence, ISCMI 2019

Conference

Conference6th International Conference on Soft Computing and Machine Intelligence, ISCMI 2019
Country/TerritorySouth Africa
CityJohannesburg
Period19/11/1920/11/19

Keywords

  • Computational intelligence
  • Metaheuristics
  • Optimisation
  • Scheduling

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Computational Mathematics
  • Modeling and Simulation

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