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A mathematical formulation and an NSGA-II algorithm for minimizing the makespan and energy cost under time-of-use electricity price in an unrelated parallel machine scheduling

In many countries, there is an energy pricing policy that varies according to the time-of-use. In this context, it is financially advantageous for the industries to plan their production considering this policy. This article introduces a new bi-objective unrelated parallel machine scheduling problem...

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Autores principales: Rego, Marcelo F., Pinto, Júlio Cesar E.M., Cota, Luciano P., Souza, Marcone J.F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9044217/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35494814
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.844
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Sumario:In many countries, there is an energy pricing policy that varies according to the time-of-use. In this context, it is financially advantageous for the industries to plan their production considering this policy. This article introduces a new bi-objective unrelated parallel machine scheduling problem with sequence-dependent setup times, in which the objectives are to minimize the makespan and the total energy cost. We propose a mixed-integer linear programming formulation based on the weighted sum method to obtain the Pareto front. We also developed an NSGA-II method to address large instances of the problem since the formulation cannot solve it in an acceptable computational time for decision-making. The results showed that the proposed NSGA-II is able to find a good approximation for the Pareto front when compared with the weighted sum method in small instances. Besides, in large instances, NSGA-II outperforms, with 95% confidence level, the MOGA and NSGA-I multi-objective techniques concerning the hypervolume and hierarchical cluster counting metrics. Thus, the proposed algorithm finds non-dominated solutions with good convergence, diversity, uniformity, and amplitude.