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• TITLE: Simulated Annealing Algorithm to Minimize Makespanin Single Machine Scheduling Problem withUniform Parallel Machines

  AUTHORS: Panneerselvam Senthilkumar, Sockalingam Narayanan

  KEYWORDS: Uniform Parallel Machines, Measure of Performance, Heuristic, Simulated Annealing Algorithm, ANOVA

  JOURNAL NAME: Intelligent Information Management, Vol.3 No.1, January 29, 2011

  ABSTRACT: This paper presents a simulated annealing algorithm to minimize makespan of single machine scheduling problem with uniform parallel machines. The single machine scheduling problem with uniform parallel machines consists of n jobs, each with single operation, which are to be scheduled on m parallel machines with different speeds. Since, this scheduling problem is a combinatorial problem; usage of a heuristic is inevitable to obtain the solution in polynomial time. In this paper, simulated annealing algorithm is presented. In the first phase, a seed generation algorithm is given. Then, it is followed by three variations of the simulated annealing algorithms and their comparison using ANOVA in terms of their solutions on makespan.