Research Article

An Enhanced Discrete Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm to Minimize the Total Flow Time in Permutation Flow Shop Scheduling with Limited Buffers

Table 1

ANOVA results for the experiment on the calibration of DABC.

SourceSum of squaresDfMean squareF valuep value

Main effects
 A: LS5.3722.6962.23<0.0001
 B: d5.8170.8319.23<0.0001
 C: ds0.3770.0531.230.2836

Interactions
 AB141.0000
 AC141.0000
 BC5.59490.112.64<0.0001