Research Article

A Hybrid Algorithm for the Permutation Flowshop Scheduling Problem without Intermediate Buffers

Table 1

Comparison results between VNS and SSVNS.

Problem ()VNS1SSVNS
APRDminPRDAPRDminPRD

20 × 5−0.43−0.43−0.43−0.46
20 × 10−2.29−2.38−2.38−2.40
20 × 20−2.96−2.94−3.22−3.30
50 × 5−2.19−2.72−4.06−4.42
50 × 10−4.02−4.55−4.85−5.48
50 × 20−4.92−5.39−5.18−5.53
100 × 5−2.37−2.52−2.32−2.63
100 × 10−4.36−4.61−5.11−5.76
100 × 20−3.72−4.14−4.02−4.60
200 × 10−2.71−3.39−3.10−4.08
200 × 20−2.77−2.91−3.28−3.90
500 × 20−1.36−1.72−1.82−1.99

Average−2.84−3.14−3.31−3.71