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CP
1998
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Optimizing with Constraints: A Case Study in Scheduling Maintenance of Electric Power Units
A well-studied problem in the electric power industry is that of optimally scheduling preventative maintenance of power generating units within a power plant. We show how these pr...
Daniel Frost, Rina Dechter
CEC
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Dispatching rules for production scheduling: A hyper-heuristic landscape analysis
— Hyper-heuristics or “heuristics to chose heuristics” are an emergent search methodology that seeks to automate the process of selecting or combining simpler heuristics in o...
Gabriela Ochoa, José Antonio Vázquez...
EVOW
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Exact/Heuristic Hybrids Using rVNS and Hyperheuristics for Workforce Scheduling
In this paper we study a complex real-world workforce scheduling problem. We propose a method of splitting the problem into smaller parts and solving each part using exhaustive sea...
Stephen Remde, Peter I. Cowling, Keshav P. Dahal, ...
AIPS
2007
13 years 9 months ago
The Manpower Allocation Problem with Time Windows and Job-Teaming Constraints
The Manpower Allocation Problem with Time Windows, Job-Teaming Constraints and a limited number of teams (mMAPTWTC) is a crew scheduling problem faced in several different context...
Anders Dohn, Esben Kolind, Jens Clausen
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Caching schemes for DCOP search algorithms
Distributed Constraint Optimization (DCOP) is useful for solving agent-coordination problems. Any-space DCOP search algorithms require only a small amount of memory but can be spe...
William Yeoh, Pradeep Varakantham, Sven Koenig