• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.11 no.11
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• pp.4174-4181
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• 2010

This paper presents an adaptive scheduling algorithm for manufacturing processes with non-stationary rework probabilities. The adaptive scheduling scheme named by hybrid Q-learning algorithm is proposed in this paper making use of the non-stationary rework probability and coupling with artificial neural networks. The proposed algorithm is measured by mean tardiness and the extensive computational results show that the presented algorithm gives very efficient schedules superior to the existing dispatching algorithms.