Single level production planning in petrochemical industries using Moth-flame optimization
Sandeep Singh Chauhan, Prakash R. Kotecha · 2016
The determination of optimal production planning is a combinatorial optimization problem and requires specific strategies for evolutionary computation techniques to be successful. In this work, we provide such a strategy that enables the use of evolutionary algorithms to efficiently solve the single level production planning. The efficacy of the strategy is demonstrated with the recently proposed Moth-flame optimization which also enables in evaluating the performance of this technique. It was observed that the Moth-flame optimization is able to consistently solve the production planning problem with the suggested strategy.