An Improved Discrete Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm for Flexible Flowshop Scheduling with Step Deteriorating Jobs and Sequence-Dependent Setup Times

Algorithm 1

Procedure of MVNS.

	Initialization: define
	for every food source do
	Perturbation:
	x = 1;
	while x < 3;
	execute to
	x = x + 1;
	end while
	Search:
	while the stopping criterion is not met
	= execute to
	If
	;
	;
	else
	end if
	end while
	end for