An exact approach for bi-objective non-identical batch processing machines scheduling
摘要
Batch scheduling aims to allocate jobs into several batches on batch-processing machines, and thus increases the production efficiency and has pervasive applications. This paper investigates a novel batch-processing machine scheduling problem, in which non-identical machines are capable of processing a batch of jobs simultaneously only if the knapsack constraints are fulfilled. The objectives are to minimize makespan and total energy consumption. The mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) is established, and an exact algorithm is then proposed to tackle such a bi-objective optimization problem. In each step, the makespan is treated as a