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Artificial bee colony algorithms for the order scheduling with release dates

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The order scheduling models have kept growing attention in the research community. However, as studying research regarding order scheduling models with release dates is relatively limited; this study addresses an order scheduling problem with release dates where the objective function is to minimize the weighted number of tardy orders of all the given orders. To solve this intractable problem, this study first proposes some dominance properties and a lower bound used in a branch-and-bound method for finding an optimal solution. This paper then utilizes four basic bee colony algorithms, and four hybrid bee colony algorithms for searching the optimal solution and approximate solution, and performs one-way analysis of variance and Fisher’s least significant difference tests to determine and evaluate the performances of all eight proposed algorithms.

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Authors thank the Associate Editor and three anonymous referees for their helpful comments on the earlier versions of our paper. This paper was supported in part by the Ministry of Science Technology (MOST) of Taiwan under Grant Nos. MOST 103-2410-H-035-022-MY2 and MOST 105-2221-E-035-053-MY3. Authors thank Prof. Kunjung Lai of the Department of Statistics, Feng Chia University, for helping us to edit the English language.

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    Win-Chin Lin, I-Hong Chung & Chin-Chia Wu

  2. College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, 110819, China

    Jianyou Xu

  3. College of Economics and Management, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, 210037, China

    Danyu Bai

  4. Department of Business Administration, Fujen Catholic University, New Taipei City, Taiwan

    Shang-Chia Liu

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Lin, WC., Xu, J., Bai, D. et al. Artificial bee colony algorithms for the order scheduling with release dates. Soft Comput 23, 8677–8688 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-018-3466-5

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