The blocking flowshop scheduling problem with makespan criterion has important applications in a variety of industrial systems. Heuristics that explore specific characteristics of the problem are essential for many practical systems to find good solutions with limited computational effort. This...

The hybrid flowshop scheduling (HFS) problem with the objective of minimising the makespan has important applications in a variety of industrial systems. This paper presents an effective discrete artificial bee colony (DABC) algorithm that has a hybrid representation and a combination of forward...