Evaluation of bioinspired algorithms for the solution of the job scheduling problem

In this research we used bio-inspired metaheuristics, as artificial immune systems and ant colony algorithms that are based on a number of characteristics and behaviors of living things that are interesting in the computer science area. This paper presents an evaluation of bio-inspired solutions to combinatorial optimization problem, called the Job Shop Scheduling or planning work, in a simple way the objective is to find a configuration or job stream that has the least amount of time to be executed in machine settings. The performance of the algorithms was characterized and evaluated for reference instances of the job shop scheduling problem, comparing the quality of the solutions obtained with respect to the best known solution of the most effective methods. The solutions were evaluated in two aspects, first in relation of quality of solutions, taking as reference the makespan and secondly in relation of performance, taking the number evaluations performed by the algorithm to obtain the best solution.

An ant colony optimization algorithm for job shop scheduling problem

The nature has inspired several metaheuristics, outstanding among these is Ant Colony Optimization (ACO), which have proved to be very effective and efficient in problems of high complexity (NP-hard) in combinatorial optimization. This paper describes the implementation of an ACO model algorithm known as Elitist Ant System (EAS), applied to a combinatorial optimization problem called Job Shop Scheduling Problem (JSSP). We propose a method that seeks to reduce delays designating the operation immediately available, but considering the operations that lack little to be available and have a greater amount of pheromone. The performance of the algorithm was evaluated for problems of JSSP reference, comparing the quality of the solutions obtained regarding the best known solution of the most effective methods. The solutions were of good quality and obtained with a remarkable efficiency by having to make a very low number of objective function evaluations.