Pan, Quan-Ke; Wang, Ling; Li, Jun-Qing; Duan, Jun-Hua - In: Omega 45 (2014) C, pp. 42-56
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...