Integrated data structure and scheduling approach for manufacturing and transportation using hybrid genetic algorithm

The scheduling systems in industries are required to construct schedule considering many kind of elements. The Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) is an approach for combined problems. To realize APS system, it is important to integrate data structure and scheduling algorithm using these data. In this paper, we propose integrated data structure based on Bill of Manufacturing with information technology of XML family and new Multistage Operation-based Genetic Algorithm for scheduling subsystem. The results of numerical experiment validate effectiveness of the proposal methods. Received: June 2005/Accepted: December 2005