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Dynamic job shop scheduling (JSS) problems with dynamic job arrivals have been studied extensively in the literature due to their applicability to real-world manufacturing systems, such as semiconductor manufacturing. In a dynamic JSS problem with dynamic job arrivals, jobs arrive on the shop floor unannounced that need to be processed by the machines on the shop floor. A job has a sequence of operations that can only processed on specific machines, and machines can only process one job at a time. Many effective genetic programming based hyper-heuristic (GP-HH) approaches have been proposed for dynamic JSS problems with dynamic job arrivals, where high quality dispatching rules are automatically evolved by GP to handle the dynamic JSS problem instances. However, research that focus on handling multiple dynamic events simultaneously are limited, such as both dynamic job arrivals and machine breakdowns. A machine breakdown event results in the affected machine being unable to process any jobs during the repair time. It is likely that machine breakdowns can significantly affect the effectiveness of the scheduling procedure unless they are explicitly accounted for. Therefore, this paper develops new machine breakdown terminals for a GP approach and evaluates their effectiveness for a dynamic JSS problem with both dynamic job arrivals and machine breakdowns. The results show that the GP approaches with the machine breakdown terminals do show improvements. The analysis shows that the machine breakdown terminals may indirectly contribute in the evolution of high quality rules, but occur infrequently in the output rules evolved by the machine breakdown GP approaches.
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Park, J., Mei, Y., Nguyen, S., Chen, G., Zhang, M. (2018). Investigating a Machine Breakdown Genetic Programming Approach for Dynamic Job Shop Scheduling. In: Castelli, M., Sekanina, L., Zhang, M., Cagnoni, S., García-Sánchez, P. (eds) Genetic Programming. EuroGP 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10781. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77553-1_16
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