A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE NEWEST BIOLOGICALLY-INSPIRED ALGORITHMS FOR THE FLOWSHOP SCHEDULING PROBLEM

Abstract

The three most recent bio-inspired heuristics proposed in the OR literature for solving the flowshop scheduling problem are revised in the paper. All of these algorithms use local search procedures to improve solutions achieved by the main procedure. The author tries to asses the gains from hybridizing such heuristics with local search procedures. The achieved results confirm that simple local search algorithms can compete successfully with much complex hybrids.