Modelling and scheduling multi-objective flow shop problems with interfering jobs

This paper studies multi-objective flow shop scheduling problems with interfering jobs. That is, there are two sets of jobs and each of which has its own objective. Some jobs are scheduled so as to minimize makespan while the others are to minimize total tardiness. In this case, the problem was mathematically modeled by a mixed integer linear program. Then, a novel biogeography-based optimization was developed to solve the problem. To evaluate the algorithm, its performance was compared with three well-known algorithms in the literature. The results of the present study show that the proposed algorithm outperforms the other tested algorithms. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.