Research Article

The Lagrangean Relaxation for the Flow Shop Scheduling Problem with Precedence Constraints, Release Dates and Delivery Times

Table 2

Results for the ILP model running CPLEX with a time limit of 7,200 seconds. the GAP is defined as . Results depicted for the groups of instances 1 and 2. The bolded LB and UB values represent an instance’s optimal solution.

Group 1 instancesGroup 2 instances

InstanceInteger model CPLEXLagrangean RelaxationInstanceInteger model CPLEXLagrangean Relaxation
LBUBGAP (%)Time (sec)LBUBGAP (%)Time (sec)LBUBGAP (%)Time (sec)LBUBGAP (%)Time (sec)
5-3-4-179479400794799105-3-4-24,6304,630014,6304,66010
5-4-4-167167100671671005-4-4-23,2223,2220123,2223,22200
5-5-4-184284200842852105-5-4-23,2223,2220263,2223,30520
5-6-4-180180100801812105-6-4-24,8554,8550264,8404,95930
5-7-4-190190100901905105-7-4-24,9544,9540214,9545,09030
10-6-9-1939939019399552010-6-9-25,2715,2720.0017,2005,2215,31720
10-8-9-1983983059839891010-8-9-24,2894,2890524,2894,28900
10-10-9-11,0021,0020109961,0243010-10-9-25,0805,08003,1385,0805,12310
10-12-9-11,0011,001021,0011,0131010-12-9-24,8024,8020704,8024,86510
10-14-9-1906906009069161010-14-9-25,1515,15101575,1515,22020
20-12-19-19269260289269533020-12-19-25,3986,124127,2005,9216,00311
20-16-19-19629620249549843020-16-19-25,2485,824107,2005,6975,96341
20-20-19-11,0481,0480431,0481,1257020-20-19-25,3945,72667,2005,7266,12462
20-24-19-11,0821,0820511,0821,0961020-24-19-25,3137,033247,2005,5816,20112
20-28-19-11,1001,10001891,1001,1676020-28-19-25,6477,328237,2006,0676,61783
40-24-39-11,0121,01202,3321,0061,0857040-24-39-25,9287,941257,2006,2817,296146
40-32-39-11,0961,15957,2001,1441,26610040-32-39-2---7,2006,0257,132157
40-40-39-11,0841,12847,2001,0921,26013140-40-39-2---7,2007,2967,989912
40-48-39-11,0741,14667,2001,1161,25110140-48-39-2---7,2006,5628,2272015
40-56-39-11,0511,12677,2001,0691,1557240-56-39-2---7,2007,1117,9761117
60-36-59-11,1841,28887,2001,2331,3247260-36-59-2---7,2007,3498,1441016
60-48-59-11,1601,505237,2001,2251,2593360-48-59-2---7,2008,1019,8391834
60-60-59-11,1941,580247,2001,2681,3818460-60-59-2---7,2007,5729,6092143
60-72-59-11,1951,618267,2001,2891,44210560-72-59-2---7,2007,1509,9052845
60-84-59-11,1181,100,843997,2001,2831,50214760-84-59-2---7,2007,38810,3022861