Research Article

Heuristics for the Hybrid Flow Shop Scheduling Problem with Sequence-Dependent Setup times

Table 5

The comparison of the heuristic algorithms (n = 50, k = 6).

FlexibilityAlgorithmProportion
5%10%25%50%75%100%125%150%

1/3EPRA68.6379.5287.8287.4860.9966.39154.4161.62
ESRA86.0672.1481.6181.6757.2766.26147.0158.54
ESPRA66.6971.7580.0480.1855.7366.39144.6558.22

2/3EPRA197.10231.48234.40263.35280.77330.91261.98181.16
ESRA184.72221.23225.64246.83272.14317.89251.64163.08
ESPRA183.76221.00301.42247.04266.09317.69246.36168.31

3/3EPRA226.18242.09388.69504.05433.54595.67564.66547.23
ESRA218.60234.47400.94479.94405.95525.45533.70511.27
ESPRA204.85229.72384.75477.50389.70578.40534.05474.46