Research Article

Assembly Line Balancing Based on Beam Ant Colony Optimisation

Table 2

Characteristics of tricky instances.

InstancesCSumMeanVarTVOS

Barthol285423428.608356.716183830.0120.9770.3370.258
Lutz2124855.4498.205110100.0830.8330.4540.776
Lutz2144855.4498.205110100.0710.7140.3890.776
Lutz3110164418.472184.525174740.0090.6730.1680.776
Lutz3118164418.472184.525174740.0090.6270.1570.776
Sawyer4732410.80036.855125250.0210.5320.2300.448
Tonge251351050.1431505.40011561560.0040.6220.2000.200
Warnecke60154826.690206.0777537.5710.1170.8830.4450.591
Wee-mag47149919.98746.41922713.50.0430.5750.4250.227
Scholl139469655234.52938911.04751386277.20.0040.9940.1680.582
Scholl224769655234.52938911.04751386277.20.0020.6170.1040.582

Note. For instances of Scholl, only the statistical information of tricky instances with the smallest and largest cycle time is reported in order to show the tendency character of the problem; “Sum” in the second column is the sum of processing times; and “” and “” denote the minimum and maximum task time, respectively.