Evolutionary algorithm for minmax regret flow-shop problem

The uncertain flow-shop is considered. It is assumed that processing times are not given a priori, but they belong to intervals of known bounds. The absolute regret (regret) is used to evaluate a solution (a schedule) which gives the minmax regret binary optimization problem. The evolutionary heuristic solution algorithm is experimentally compared with a simple middle interval heuristic algorithm for three machines instances. The conducted simulations confirmed the several percent advantage of the evolutionary approach.