Using ensemble and metaheuristics learning principles with artificial neural networks to improve due date prediction performance
- 7 October 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in International Journal of Production Research
- Vol. 46 (21), 6009-6027
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00207540701197036
Abstract
One of the common and important problems in production scheduling is to quote an attractive but attainable due date for an arriving customer order. Among a wide variety of prediction methods proposed to improve due date quotation (DDQ) accuracy, artificial neural networks (ANN) are considered the most effective because of their flexible non-linear and interaction effects modelling capability. In spite of this growing use of ANNs in a DDQ context, ANNs have several intrinsic shortcomings such as instability, bias and variance problems that undermine their accuracy. In this paper, we develop an enhanced ANN-based DDQ model using machine learning, evolutionary and metaheuristics learning concepts. Computational experiments suggest that the proposed model outperforms the conventional ANN-based DDQ method under different shop environments and different training data sizes.This publication has 22 references indexed in Scilit:
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