TY - BOOK AU - Marwa Mostafa Mostafa Mohamed AU - Ali Ahmed Moustafa Khattab , AU - Tamer Farouk Mohamed Abdelhady Abdelmaguid , TI - Using genetic algorithms for flexible job shop scheduling with sequence - dependent setup times / PY - 2011/// CY - Cairo : PB - Marwa Mostafa Mostafa Mohamed , KW - FJSP KW - GA KW - GA representation N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Engineering - Department of Mechanical design and Production; Issued also as CD N2 - In this thesis, the problem of job shop scheduling with alternative machines and sequence - dependent setup times is addressed with the objective of minimizing the maximum completion time for all jobs, know as the makespan . Three genetic algorithm coding schemes from the literature of the JSSP , namely Operation - base ( OB ) representation, Priorty - rule - based ( PR ) representation and random keys ( RK ) representation are applied to the studied problem ER -