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...

Flowshop scheduling is a very active research area. This problem still attracts a considerable amount of interest despite the sheer amount of available results. Total flowtime minimization of a flowshop has been actively studied and many effective algorithms have been proposed in the last few...