TY - JOUR KW - Makespan KW - Scheduling KW - Flow Shop KW - Combinatorial Optimization KW - Golden Ball Algorithm AU - Fatima Sayoti AU - Mohammed Essaid Riffi AB - The Flow Shop Scheduling Problem (FSSP) is notoriously NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem. The goal is to find a schedule that minimizes the makespan. This paper proposes an adaptation of a new approach called Golden Ball Algorithm (GBA). The proposed algorithm has been never tested with FSSP; it’s based on soccer concept to obtain the optimal solution. Numerical results are presented for 22 instances of OR- Library. The computational results indicate that this approach is practical for small OR-Library instances. IS - Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence Underpinning M1 - 1 N2 - The Flow Shop Scheduling Problem (FSSP) is notoriously NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem. The goal is to find a schedule that minimizes the makespan. This paper proposes an adaptation of a new approach called Golden Ball Algorithm (GBA). The proposed algorithm has been never tested with FSSP; it’s based on soccer concept to obtain the optimal solution. Numerical results are presented for 22 instances of OR- Library. The computational results indicate that this approach is practical for small OR-Library instances. PY - 2016 SP - 15 EP - 18 T2 - International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence TI - Golden Ball Algorithm for solving Flow Shop Scheduling Problem UR - http://www.ijimai.org/JOURNAL/sites/default/files/files/2016/02/ijimai20164_1_3_pdf_32338.pdf VL - 4 SN - 1989-1660 ER -