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ANOR
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
A branch and bound method for the job-shop problem with sequence-dependent setup times
This paper deals with the job-shop scheduling problem with sequencedependent setup times. We propose a new method to solve the makespan minimization problem to optimality. The met...
Christian Artigues, Dominique Feillet
HICSS
2005
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
A Two-Stage Heuristic for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and a Limited Number of Vehicles
The Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (VRPTW) is an important problem in logistics. The problem is to serve a number of customers at minimum cost without violating the cus...
Andrew Lim, Xingwen Zhang
CEC
2003
IEEE
14 years 23 days ago
Adaptive temperature schedule determined by genetic algorithm for parallel simulated annealing
Abstract- Simulated annealing (SA) is an effective general heuristic method for solving many combinatorial optimization problems. This paper deals with two problems in SA. One is ...
Mitsunori Miki, Tomoyuki Hiroyasu, Jun'ya Wako, Ta...
LION
2009
Springer
210views Optimization» more  LION 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Beam-ACO Based on Stochastic Sampling: A Case Study on the TSP with Time Windows
Beam-ACO algorithms are hybrid methods that combine the metaheuristic ant colony optimization with beam search. They heavily rely on accurate and computationally inexpensive boundi...
Manuel López-Ibáñez, Christia...
ANTSW
2004
Springer
14 years 26 days ago
S-ACO: An Ant-Based Approach to Combinatorial Optimization Under Uncertainty
A general-purpose, simulation-based algorithm S-ACO for solving stochastic combinatorial optimization problems by means of the ant colony optimization (ACO) paradigm is investigate...
Walter J. Gutjahr