Integrating Genetic Algorithm, Tabu Search Approach for Job Shop Scheduling

This paper presents a new algorithm based on integrating Genetic Algorithms and Tabu Search methods to solve the Job Shop Scheduling problem. The idea of the proposed algorithm is derived from Genetic Algorithms. Most of the scheduling problems require either exponential time or space to generate an optimal answer. Job Shop scheduling (JSS) is the general scheduling problem and it is a NP-complete problem, but it is difficult to find the optimal solution. This paper applies Genetic Algorithms and Tabu Search for Job Shop scheduling problem and compares the results obtained by each. With the implementation of our approach the JSS problems reaches optimal solution and minimize the makespan.

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