Research Article

A Genetic Algorithm for a Two-Machine Flowshop with a Limited Waiting Time Constraint and Sequence-Dependent Setup Times

Table 8

Comparison between the proposed heuristic algorithms.

AlgorithmRDICPUT
501002002050100200

0.73, 0a0.67, 10.57, 10.55, 0<0.010.030.384.63
0.72, 00.64, 00.6, 00.96, 0<0.010.040.46.12
0.86, 00.93, 10.97, 00.66, 0<0.010.040.446.12
0.10, 150.7, 10.66, 00.23, 4<0.010.040.5910.19
0.07, 230.13, 60.19, 40.17, 412.5510
0.05, 270.1, 90.14, 50.15, 4251020
0.02, 380.02, 330.05, 130.08, 5102550100
0.00, 430.00, 450, 450.00, 452050100200

aAverage RDI, number of instances (out of 45 instances) for which the algorithm found solutions better than or equal to those from CPLEX.