Ant Colony Optimisation for Backward Production Scheduling

Table 1

Data for the analysis of the considered 26 factorial experiments.

	Scenarios	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
BRP	Low	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
	High	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10
NA	Low	20	20	20	20	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10
	High	50	50	50	50	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20
QIP	Low	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
	High	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10
QAP	Low	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
	High	50	50	50	50	50	50	50	50	50	50	50	50	50	50	50	50
NT	Low	60	60	60	60	60	60	60	60	60	60	60	60	60	60	60	60
	High	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100
EP	Low	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
	High	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
Number of machines		3	3	3	3	6	6	6	6	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10
Number of orders		15	20	30	45	15	20	30	45	15	20	30	45	15	20	30	45