A genetic algorithm for solving single level lotsizing problems
The single level lot-sizing problem arises whenever a manufacturing company wishes to translate an aggregate plan for production of an end item into a detailed planning of its production. Although the cost driven problem is widely studied in the literature, only laborious dynamic programming approac...
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| description | The single level lot-sizing problem arises whenever a manufacturing company wishes to translate an aggregate plan for production of an end item into a detailed planning of its production. Although the cost driven problem is widely studied in the literature, only laborious dynamic programming approaches are known to guarantee global minimum. Thus, stochastically-based heuristics that have the mechanism to escape from local minimum are needed. In this paper a genetic algorithm for solving single level lot-sizing problems is proposed and the results of applying the algorithm toexample problems are discussed. In our implementation, a lot-sizing population-generating heuristic is used to feed chromosomes to a genetic algorithm with operators specially designed for lot-sizing problems. The combination of the population-generating heuristic with genetic algorithm results in a faster convergence in finding the optimal lot-sizing scheme due to the guaranteed feasibility of the initial population. |
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| spelling | utm-14752017-11-01T04:17:42Z http://eprints.utm.my/1475/ A genetic algorithm for solving single level lotsizing problems Zenon, Nasaruddin Ahmad, Ab. Rahman Ali, Rosmah QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science The single level lot-sizing problem arises whenever a manufacturing company wishes to translate an aggregate plan for production of an end item into a detailed planning of its production. Although the cost driven problem is widely studied in the literature, only laborious dynamic programming approaches are known to guarantee global minimum. Thus, stochastically-based heuristics that have the mechanism to escape from local minimum are needed. In this paper a genetic algorithm for solving single level lot-sizing problems is proposed and the results of applying the algorithm toexample problems are discussed. In our implementation, a lot-sizing population-generating heuristic is used to feed chromosomes to a genetic algorithm with operators specially designed for lot-sizing problems. The combination of the population-generating heuristic with genetic algorithm results in a faster convergence in finding the optimal lot-sizing scheme due to the guaranteed feasibility of the initial population. Penerbit UTM Press 2003-06 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/1475/1/JT38D%5B4%5D.pdf Zenon, Nasaruddin and Ahmad, Ab. Rahman and Ali, Rosmah (2003) A genetic algorithm for solving single level lotsizing problems. Jurnal Teknologi D, 38 (D). pp. 47-66. ISSN 0127-9696 |
| spellingShingle | QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science Zenon, Nasaruddin Ahmad, Ab. Rahman Ali, Rosmah A genetic algorithm for solving single level lotsizing problems |
| title | A genetic algorithm for solving single level lotsizing problems |
| title_full | A genetic algorithm for solving single level lotsizing problems |
| title_fullStr | A genetic algorithm for solving single level lotsizing problems |
| title_full_unstemmed | A genetic algorithm for solving single level lotsizing problems |
| title_short | A genetic algorithm for solving single level lotsizing problems |
| title_sort | genetic algorithm for solving single level lotsizing problems |
| topic | QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science |
| url | http://eprints.utm.my/1475/ http://eprints.utm.my/1475/1/JT38D%5B4%5D.pdf |