A Discrete Differential Evolution Algorithm for the Total Earliness and Tardiness Penalties with a Common Due Date on a Single-Machine
M. Fatih Tasgetiren, Quan-Ke Pan, Yun-Chia Liang, Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan · 2007
In this paper, a discrete differential evolution (DDE) algorithm is presented to solve the single machine total earliness and tardiness penalties with a common due date. A new binary swap mutation operator called Bswap is presented. In addition, the DDE algorithm is hybridized with a local search algorithm to further improve the performance of the DDE algorithm. The performance of the proposed DDE algorithm is tested on 280 benchmark instances ranging from 10 to 1000 jobs from the OR Library. The computational experiments showed that the proposed DDE algorithm has generated better results than those in the literature in terms of both solution quality and computational time