Marichelvam, M.K.; Prabaharan, T.; Yang, Xin-She; Geetha, M. - In: International Journal of Logistics Economics and … 5 (2013) 1, pp. 15-29
This paper investigates the multistage hybrid flow shop (HFS) scheduling problems using the new bat algorithm. A HFS is … validated with a well-chosen set of benchmark problems in the literature. Computational results indicate that the proposed bat … algorithm is more efficient than the genetic algorithm and particle swarm optimisation. …