Competitive bi-agent flowshop scheduling to minimise the weighted combination of makespans

Danyu Bai, Ali Diabat, Xinyue Wang, Dandan Yang, Yao Fu, Zhi Hai Zhang, Chin Chia Wu

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Abstract

Customer satisfaction is a prevalent issue amongst manufacturing enterprises. Multi-agent scheduling models aim to optimise the given criteria for improving customer satisfaction by fulfilling the customisation requirements. An investigation is executed on a bi-agent flowshop scheduling model, where a mass of tasks maintained by two competitive agents share a group of successive processors over time. The objective is to determine a feasible schedule that minimises the weighted combination of makespans belonging to two different agents. Asymptotic and worst-case analyses are conducted on a class of dominant-agent-based heuristics proposed to find approximate solutions for large-scale instances. An effective branch and bound algorithm is presented to achieve optimal solutions for small-scale instances, where the release-date-based branching rules and the preemption-based lower bounds significantly speed up the convergence of the proposed algorithm. A discrete artificial bee colony algorithm is introduced to find high-quality solutions for medium-scale instances. Extensive computational experiments are conducted to reveal the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)6750-6771
Number of pages22
JournalInternational Journal of Production Research
Volume60
Issue number22
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022

Keywords

  • Bi-agent scheduling
  • asymptotic analysis
  • branch and bound
  • discrete artificial bee colony
  • flow shop scheduling

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Strategy and Management
  • Management Science and Operations Research
  • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

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