An Improved Transiently Chaotic Neural Network Approach for Identical Parallel Machine Scheduling

  • Aiqing Yu
  • Xingsheng Gu

Abstract

Identical parallel machine scheduling problems (IPMSP) have been intensively studied for its universality in real life. A transiently chaotic neural network is improved by introducing a time-dependent parameter and it is applied to solve IPMSP. To overcome the tradeoff problem existing among the penalty terms, time-varying penalty parameters are used in the energy function. The simulation results tested on three different problems with 100 random initial conditions show that this approach solves problems in reasonable time.

Keywords

Scheduling identical parallel machines transiently chaotic neural network time-varying penalty coefficients 

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Aiqing Yu
    • 1
  • Xingsheng Gu
  1. 1.Research Institute of Automation, East China University of Science and TechnologyChina

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