Cultural algorithms, an alternative heuristic to solve the job shop scheduling problem

Engineering Optimization

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 69-85

  Cortés Rivera, Daniel ^a   Landa Becerra, Ricardo ^a   Coello Coello, Carlos A ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Cultural algorithms; Evolutionary algorithms; Evolutionary programming; Job shop scheduling; Metaheuristics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CULTURAL ALGORITHMS; JOB SHOP SCHEDULING; METAHEURISTICS;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 33845612806     PISSN: 0305215X     EISSN: 10290273     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03052150600956811     Document Type: Article

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