Evolutionary Computing of Petri Net Structure for Cyclic Job Shop Scheduling
M. NAKAMURA, Koji Hachiman, H. Tohme, T Okazaki, Shiro Tamaki · IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics Communications and Computer Sciences · 2006
This paper considers Cyclic Job-Shop Scheduling Problems (CJSSP) extended from the Job-Shop Scheduling Problem (JSSP). We propose an evolutionary computing method to solve the problem approximately by generating the Petri net structure for scheduling. The crossover proposed in this paper employs structural analysis of Petri net model, that is, the crossover improves the cycle time by breaking the bottle-neck circuit obtained by solving a linear programming problem. Experimental evaluation shows the effectiveness of our approach.