Effective path planning is crucial for mobile robots to quickly reach rescue destination and complete rescue tasks in a post-disaster scenario.In this study,we investigated the post-disaster rescue path planning probl...Effective path planning is crucial for mobile robots to quickly reach rescue destination and complete rescue tasks in a post-disaster scenario.In this study,we investigated the post-disaster rescue path planning problem and modeled this problem as a variant of the travel salesman problem(TSP)with life-strength constraints.To address this problem,we proposed an improved iterated greedy(IIG)algorithm.First,a push-forward insertion heuristic(PFIH)strategy was employed to generate a high-quality initial solution.Second,a greedy-based insertion strategy was designed and used in the destruction-construction stage to increase the algorithm’s exploration ability.Furthermore,three problem-specific swap operators were developed to improve the algorithm’s exploitation ability.Additionally,an improved simulated annealing(SA)strategy was used as an acceptance criterion to effectively prevent the algorithm from falling into local optima.To verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm,the Solomon dataset was extended to generate 27 instances for simulation.Finally,the proposed IIG was compared with five state-of-the-art algorithms.The parameter analysiswas conducted using the design of experiments(DOE)Taguchi method,and the effectiveness analysis of each component has been verified one by one.Simulation results indicate that IIGoutperforms the compared algorithms in terms of the number of rescue survivors and convergence speed,proving the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.展开更多
The flexible job shop scheduling problem(FJSP) is considered as an important problem in the modern manufacturing system. It is known to be an NP-hard problem. Most of the algorithms used in solving FJSP problem are ca...The flexible job shop scheduling problem(FJSP) is considered as an important problem in the modern manufacturing system. It is known to be an NP-hard problem. Most of the algorithms used in solving FJSP problem are categorized as metaheuristic methods. Some of these methods normally consume more CPU time and some other methods are more complicated which make them di cult to code and not easy to reproduce. This paper proposes a modified iterated greedy(IG) algorithm to deal with FJSP problem in order to provide a simpler metaheuristic, which is easier to code and to reproduce than some other much more complex methods. This is done by separating the classical IG into two phases. Each phase is used to solve a sub-problem of the FJSP: sequencing and routing sub-problems. A set of dispatching rules are employed in the proposed algorithm for the sequencing and machine selection in the construction phase of the solution. To evaluate the performance of proposed algorithm, some experiments including some famous FJSP benchmarks have been conducted. By compared with other algorithms, the experimental results show that the presented algorithm is competitive and able to find global optimum for most instances. The simplicity of the proposed IG provides an e ective method that is also easy to apply and consumes less CPU time in solving the FJSP problem.展开更多
Flow shop scheduling problem with time lags is a practical scheduling problem and attracts many studies. Permutation problem(PFSP with time lags) is concentrated but non-permutation problem(non-PFSP with time lags...Flow shop scheduling problem with time lags is a practical scheduling problem and attracts many studies. Permutation problem(PFSP with time lags) is concentrated but non-permutation problem(non-PFSP with time lags) seems to be neglected. With the aim to minimize the makespan and satisfy time lag constraints, efficient algo- rithms corresponding to PFSP and non-PFSP problems are proposed, which consist of iterated greedy algorithm for permutation(IGTLP) and iterated greedy algorithm for non-permutation (IGTLNP). The proposed algorithms are verified using well-known simple and complex instances of permutation and non-permutation problems with various time lag ranges. The permutation results indicate that the proposed IGTLP can reach near optimal solution within nearly 11% computational time of traditional GA approach. The non-permutation results indicate that the proposed IG can reach nearly same solution within less than 1% com- putational time compared with traditional GA approach. The proposed research combines PFSP and non-PFSP together with minimal and maximal time lag consideration, which provides an interesting viewpoint for industrial implementation.展开更多
The distributed permutation flow shop scheduling problem(DPFSP)has received increasing attention in recent years.The iterated greedy algorithm(IGA)serves as a powerful optimizer for addressing such a problem because o...The distributed permutation flow shop scheduling problem(DPFSP)has received increasing attention in recent years.The iterated greedy algorithm(IGA)serves as a powerful optimizer for addressing such a problem because of its straightforward,single-solution evolution framework.However,a potential draw-back of IGA is the lack of utilization of historical information,which could lead to an imbalance between exploration and exploitation,especially in large-scale DPFSPs.As a consequence,this paper develops an IGA with memory and learning mechanisms(MLIGA)to efficiently solve the DPFSP targeted at the mini-malmakespan.InMLIGA,we incorporate a memory mechanism to make a more informed selection of the initial solution at each stage of the search,by extending,reconstructing,and reinforcing the information from previous solutions.In addition,we design a twolayer cooperative reinforcement learning approach to intelligently determine the key parameters of IGA and the operations of the memory mechanism.Meanwhile,to ensure that the experience generated by each perturbation operator is fully learned and to reduce the prior parameters of MLIGA,a probability curve-based acceptance criterion is proposed by combining a cube root function with custom rules.At last,a discrete adaptive learning rate is employed to enhance the stability of the memory and learningmechanisms.Complete ablation experiments are utilized to verify the effectiveness of the memory mechanism,and the results show that this mechanism is capable of improving the performance of IGA to a large extent.Furthermore,through comparative experiments involving MLIGA and five state-of-the-art algorithms on 720 benchmarks,we have discovered that MLI-GA demonstrates significant potential for solving large-scale DPFSPs.This indicates that MLIGA is well-suited for real-world distributed flow shop scheduling.展开更多
The hybrid flow shop group scheduling problem(HFGSP)with the delivery time windows has been widely studied owing to its better flexibility and suitability for the current just-in-time production mode.However,there are...The hybrid flow shop group scheduling problem(HFGSP)with the delivery time windows has been widely studied owing to its better flexibility and suitability for the current just-in-time production mode.However,there are several unresolved challenges in problem modeling and algorithmic design tailored for HFGSP.In our study,we place emphasis on the constraint of timeliness.Therefore,this paper first constructs a mixed integer linear programming model of HFGSP with sequence-dependent setup time and delivery time windows to minimize the total weighted earliness and tardiness(TWET).Then a penalty groups-assisted iterated greedy integrating idle time insertion(PG IG ITI)is proposed to solve the above problem.In the PG IG ITI,a double decoding strategy is proposed based on the earliest available machine rule and the idle time insertion rule to calculate the TWET value.Subsequently,to reduce the amount of computation,a skip-based destruction and reconstruction strategy is designed,and a penalty groups-assisted local search is proposed to further improve the quality of the solution by disturbing the penalized groups,i.e.,early and tardy groups.Finally,through comprehensive statistical experiments on 270 test instances,the results prove that the proposed algorithm is effective compared to four state-of-the-art algorithms.展开更多
The distributed hybrid flow shop scheduling problem(DHFSP),which integrates distributed manufacturing models with parallel machines,has gained significant attention.However,in actual scheduling,some adjacent machines ...The distributed hybrid flow shop scheduling problem(DHFSP),which integrates distributed manufacturing models with parallel machines,has gained significant attention.However,in actual scheduling,some adjacent machines do not have buffers between them,resulting in blocking.This paper focuses on addressing the DHFSP with blocking constraints(DBHFSP)based on the actual production conditions.To solve DBHFSP,we construct a mixed integer linear programming(MILP)model for DBHFSP and validate its correctness using the Gurobi solver.Then,an advanced iterated greedy(AIG)algorithm is designed to minimize the makespan,in which we modify the Nawaz,Enscore,and Ham(NEH)heuristic to solve blocking constraints.To balance the global and local search capabilities of AIG,two effective inter-factory neighborhood search strategies and a swap-based local search strategy are designed.Additionally,each factory is mutually independent,and the movement within one factory does not affect the others.In view of this,we specifically designed a memory-based decoding method for insertion operations to reduce the computation time of the objective.Finally,two shaking strategies are incorporated into the algorithm to mitigate premature convergence.Five advanced algorithms are used to conduct comparative experiments with AIG on 80 test instances,and experimental results illustrate that the makespan and the relative percentage increase(RPI)obtained by AIG are 1.0%and 86.1%,respectively,better than the comparative algorithms.展开更多
To meet the multi-cooperation production demand of enterprises,the distributed permutation flow shop scheduling problem(DPFSP)has become the frontier research in the field of manufacturing systems.In this paper,we inv...To meet the multi-cooperation production demand of enterprises,the distributed permutation flow shop scheduling problem(DPFSP)has become the frontier research in the field of manufacturing systems.In this paper,we investigate the DPFSP by minimizing a makespan criterion under the constraint of sequence-dependent setup times.To solve DPFSPs,significant developments of some metaheuristic algorithms are necessary.In this context,a simple and effective improved iterated greedy(NIG)algorithm is proposed to minimize makespan in DPFSPs.According to the features of DPFSPs,a two-stage local search based on single job swapping and job block swapping within the key factory is designed in the proposed algorithm.We compare the proposed algorithm with state-of-the-art algorithms,including the iterative greedy algorithm(2019),iterative greedy proposed by Ruiz and Pan(2019),discrete differential evolution algorithm(2018),discrete artificial bee colony(2018),and artificial chemical reaction optimization(2017).Simulation results show that NIG outperforms the compared algorithms.展开更多
基金supported by the Opening Fund of Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Network based Intelligent Computing,the National Natural Science Foundation of China(52205529,61803192)the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province(ZR2021QE195)+1 种基金the Youth Innovation Team Program of Shandong Higher Education Institution(2023KJ206)the Guangyue Youth Scholar Innovation Talent Program support received from Liaocheng University(LCUGYTD2022-03).
文摘Effective path planning is crucial for mobile robots to quickly reach rescue destination and complete rescue tasks in a post-disaster scenario.In this study,we investigated the post-disaster rescue path planning problem and modeled this problem as a variant of the travel salesman problem(TSP)with life-strength constraints.To address this problem,we proposed an improved iterated greedy(IIG)algorithm.First,a push-forward insertion heuristic(PFIH)strategy was employed to generate a high-quality initial solution.Second,a greedy-based insertion strategy was designed and used in the destruction-construction stage to increase the algorithm’s exploration ability.Furthermore,three problem-specific swap operators were developed to improve the algorithm’s exploitation ability.Additionally,an improved simulated annealing(SA)strategy was used as an acceptance criterion to effectively prevent the algorithm from falling into local optima.To verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm,the Solomon dataset was extended to generate 27 instances for simulation.Finally,the proposed IIG was compared with five state-of-the-art algorithms.The parameter analysiswas conducted using the design of experiments(DOE)Taguchi method,and the effectiveness analysis of each component has been verified one by one.Simulation results indicate that IIGoutperforms the compared algorithms in terms of the number of rescue survivors and convergence speed,proving the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.
基金Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.51825502,51775216)Hubei Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.2018CFA078)Program for HUST Academic Frontier Youth Team
文摘The flexible job shop scheduling problem(FJSP) is considered as an important problem in the modern manufacturing system. It is known to be an NP-hard problem. Most of the algorithms used in solving FJSP problem are categorized as metaheuristic methods. Some of these methods normally consume more CPU time and some other methods are more complicated which make them di cult to code and not easy to reproduce. This paper proposes a modified iterated greedy(IG) algorithm to deal with FJSP problem in order to provide a simpler metaheuristic, which is easier to code and to reproduce than some other much more complex methods. This is done by separating the classical IG into two phases. Each phase is used to solve a sub-problem of the FJSP: sequencing and routing sub-problems. A set of dispatching rules are employed in the proposed algorithm for the sequencing and machine selection in the construction phase of the solution. To evaluate the performance of proposed algorithm, some experiments including some famous FJSP benchmarks have been conducted. By compared with other algorithms, the experimental results show that the presented algorithm is competitive and able to find global optimum for most instances. The simplicity of the proposed IG provides an e ective method that is also easy to apply and consumes less CPU time in solving the FJSP problem.
基金Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.71301008)Beijing Municipal Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.9144030)
文摘Flow shop scheduling problem with time lags is a practical scheduling problem and attracts many studies. Permutation problem(PFSP with time lags) is concentrated but non-permutation problem(non-PFSP with time lags) seems to be neglected. With the aim to minimize the makespan and satisfy time lag constraints, efficient algo- rithms corresponding to PFSP and non-PFSP problems are proposed, which consist of iterated greedy algorithm for permutation(IGTLP) and iterated greedy algorithm for non-permutation (IGTLNP). The proposed algorithms are verified using well-known simple and complex instances of permutation and non-permutation problems with various time lag ranges. The permutation results indicate that the proposed IGTLP can reach near optimal solution within nearly 11% computational time of traditional GA approach. The non-permutation results indicate that the proposed IG can reach nearly same solution within less than 1% com- putational time compared with traditional GA approach. The proposed research combines PFSP and non-PFSP together with minimal and maximal time lag consideration, which provides an interesting viewpoint for industrial implementation.
基金supported in part by the National Key Research and Development Program of China under Grant No.2021YFF0901300in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.62173076 and 72271048.
文摘The distributed permutation flow shop scheduling problem(DPFSP)has received increasing attention in recent years.The iterated greedy algorithm(IGA)serves as a powerful optimizer for addressing such a problem because of its straightforward,single-solution evolution framework.However,a potential draw-back of IGA is the lack of utilization of historical information,which could lead to an imbalance between exploration and exploitation,especially in large-scale DPFSPs.As a consequence,this paper develops an IGA with memory and learning mechanisms(MLIGA)to efficiently solve the DPFSP targeted at the mini-malmakespan.InMLIGA,we incorporate a memory mechanism to make a more informed selection of the initial solution at each stage of the search,by extending,reconstructing,and reinforcing the information from previous solutions.In addition,we design a twolayer cooperative reinforcement learning approach to intelligently determine the key parameters of IGA and the operations of the memory mechanism.Meanwhile,to ensure that the experience generated by each perturbation operator is fully learned and to reduce the prior parameters of MLIGA,a probability curve-based acceptance criterion is proposed by combining a cube root function with custom rules.At last,a discrete adaptive learning rate is employed to enhance the stability of the memory and learningmechanisms.Complete ablation experiments are utilized to verify the effectiveness of the memory mechanism,and the results show that this mechanism is capable of improving the performance of IGA to a large extent.Furthermore,through comparative experiments involving MLIGA and five state-of-the-art algorithms on 720 benchmarks,we have discovered that MLI-GA demonstrates significant potential for solving large-scale DPFSPs.This indicates that MLIGA is well-suited for real-world distributed flow shop scheduling.
基金This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong province(No.ZR2023MF022)National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.61973203,61803192,62106073,and 61966012)Guangyue Young Scholar Innovation Team of Liaocheng University(No.LCUGYTD2022-03).
文摘The hybrid flow shop group scheduling problem(HFGSP)with the delivery time windows has been widely studied owing to its better flexibility and suitability for the current just-in-time production mode.However,there are several unresolved challenges in problem modeling and algorithmic design tailored for HFGSP.In our study,we place emphasis on the constraint of timeliness.Therefore,this paper first constructs a mixed integer linear programming model of HFGSP with sequence-dependent setup time and delivery time windows to minimize the total weighted earliness and tardiness(TWET).Then a penalty groups-assisted iterated greedy integrating idle time insertion(PG IG ITI)is proposed to solve the above problem.In the PG IG ITI,a double decoding strategy is proposed based on the earliest available machine rule and the idle time insertion rule to calculate the TWET value.Subsequently,to reduce the amount of computation,a skip-based destruction and reconstruction strategy is designed,and a penalty groups-assisted local search is proposed to further improve the quality of the solution by disturbing the penalized groups,i.e.,early and tardy groups.Finally,through comprehensive statistical experiments on 270 test instances,the results prove that the proposed algorithm is effective compared to four state-of-the-art algorithms.
基金This work was jointly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province(No.ZR2023MF022)National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.61973203,62173216,and 62173356)Guangyue Youth Scholar Innovation Talent Program Support from Liaocheng University(No.LCUGYTD2022-03).
文摘The distributed hybrid flow shop scheduling problem(DHFSP),which integrates distributed manufacturing models with parallel machines,has gained significant attention.However,in actual scheduling,some adjacent machines do not have buffers between them,resulting in blocking.This paper focuses on addressing the DHFSP with blocking constraints(DBHFSP)based on the actual production conditions.To solve DBHFSP,we construct a mixed integer linear programming(MILP)model for DBHFSP and validate its correctness using the Gurobi solver.Then,an advanced iterated greedy(AIG)algorithm is designed to minimize the makespan,in which we modify the Nawaz,Enscore,and Ham(NEH)heuristic to solve blocking constraints.To balance the global and local search capabilities of AIG,two effective inter-factory neighborhood search strategies and a swap-based local search strategy are designed.Additionally,each factory is mutually independent,and the movement within one factory does not affect the others.In view of this,we specifically designed a memory-based decoding method for insertion operations to reduce the computation time of the objective.Finally,two shaking strategies are incorporated into the algorithm to mitigate premature convergence.Five advanced algorithms are used to conduct comparative experiments with AIG on 80 test instances,and experimental results illustrate that the makespan and the relative percentage increase(RPI)obtained by AIG are 1.0%and 86.1%,respectively,better than the comparative algorithms.
基金This work was jointly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.61803192,61973203,61966012,61773192,61603169,61773246,and 71533001)Thanks for the support of Shandong province colleges and universities youth innovation talent introduction and education program.
文摘To meet the multi-cooperation production demand of enterprises,the distributed permutation flow shop scheduling problem(DPFSP)has become the frontier research in the field of manufacturing systems.In this paper,we investigate the DPFSP by minimizing a makespan criterion under the constraint of sequence-dependent setup times.To solve DPFSPs,significant developments of some metaheuristic algorithms are necessary.In this context,a simple and effective improved iterated greedy(NIG)algorithm is proposed to minimize makespan in DPFSPs.According to the features of DPFSPs,a two-stage local search based on single job swapping and job block swapping within the key factory is designed in the proposed algorithm.We compare the proposed algorithm with state-of-the-art algorithms,including the iterative greedy algorithm(2019),iterative greedy proposed by Ruiz and Pan(2019),discrete differential evolution algorithm(2018),discrete artificial bee colony(2018),and artificial chemical reaction optimization(2017).Simulation results show that NIG outperforms the compared algorithms.