Award Date

1-1-2005

Degree Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Department

Computer Science

First Committee Member

Wolfgang Bein

Number of Pages

55

Abstract

A flow shop problem has n jobs (i = 1.. , n) on m machines (j = 1, . . . , m) and a job consists two operations and the jth operation of each job must be processed on machine j. Any job can start only on machine j if it is completed on machine j-1 and if machine j is free. Each operation has a known processing time pij. The work here focuses on the case m = 2 where the objective is to minimize (1) the makespan (Cmax) and (2) the average completion time (sumCi); We first review an efficient greedy algorithm by Johnson for Cmax and give detailed proofs; The we note that in the case of sumCi the problem is harder, in fact it is NP-hard. To tackle this problem we have implemented a branch and bound algorithm to find the optimal schedules in some cases. We also constructed a genetic algorithm under MIT's GALib C++ package. Solutions from the branch and bound algorithm are used as benchmarks for the solutions found by the genetic algorithm.

Keywords

Flow; Machines; Scheduling; Shop

Controlled Subject

Computer science; Operations research

File Format

pdf

File Size

993.28 KB

Degree Grantor

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Language

English

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