Journal of Applied Sciences1812-56541812-5662Asian Network for Scientific Information10.3923/jas.2009.1740.1745AbiriM.B. ZandiehM. Alem-TabrizA. 9200999This study describes a Tabu Search (TS) algorithm approach
to the scheduling of a sequence-dependent setup times hybrid flow shop.
The details of a TS approach are described and implemented. The results
obtained are compared with those computed by Random Key Genetic Algorithm
(RKGA) presented earlier. From the results, it was established that TS
outperformed RKGA.]]>Bilge, U., F. Kirac, M. Kurtulan and P. Pekgun, 200431397414Gupta, J.N.D. and E.A. Tunc,199477415428Lin, H.T. and C.J. Liao,200386133143Kochhar, S. and R.J.T. Morris,19876299314Kurz, M.E. and R.G. Askin,200385371388Kurz, M.E. and R.G. Askin,20041596682Laguna, M., J.W. Barnes and F. Glover,1991 26374Leon, V.J. and B. Ramamoorthy,199729115125Luh, P.B., L. Gou, Y. Zhang, T. Nagahora, M. Tsuji and K. Yoneda et al.,199876233259Norman, B.A. and J.C. Bean,199946199211Pinedo, M.,20022nd Edn.,Rios-Mercado, R.Z. and J.F. Bard,199825351366Sule, D.R.,198229517519Szwarc, W. and J.N.D. Gupta,198734619627Zandieh, M., S.M.T. Fatemi Ghomi and S.M. Moattar Husseini,2006180111127Glover, F.,19891190206