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HEURISTICS
2010
13 years 2 months ago
A large neighbourhood search approach to the multi-activity shift scheduling problem
The challenge in shift scheduling lies in the construction of a set of work shifts, which are subject to specific regulations, in order to cover fluctuating staff demands. This pro...
Claude-Guy Quimper, Louis-Martin Rousseau
HEURISTICS
2010
13 years 2 months ago
An evolutionary and constructive approach to a crew scheduling problem in underground passenger transport
Operation management of underground passenger transport systems is associated with combinatorial optimization problems (known as crew and train scheduling and rostering) which bel...
Rafael Elizondo, Víctor Parada, Lorena Prad...
HEURISTICS
2010
13 years 4 months ago
A metaheuristic approach to the urban transit routing problem
The urban transit routing problem (UTRP) is NP-Hard and involves devising routes for public transport systems. It is a highly complex multiply constrained problem and the evaluati...
Lang Fan, Christine L. Mumford
HEURISTICS
2010
13 years 4 months ago
Alternating control tree search for knapsack/covering problems
Lars Magnus Hvattum, Halvard Arntzen, Arne L&oslas...
HEURISTICS
2010
13 years 4 months ago
A shift sequence based approach for nurse scheduling and a new benchmark dataset
This paper investigates an adaptive constructive method for solving nurse rostering problems. The constraints considered in the problems are categorised into three classes: those t...
Peter Brucker, Edmund K. Burke, Timothy Curtois, R...
HEURISTICS
2010
13 years 4 months ago
An adaptive memory algorithm for the split delivery vehicle routing problem
Abstract The split delivery vehicle routing problem (SDVRP) relaxes routing restrictions forcing unique deliveries to customers and allows multiple vehicles to satisfy customer dem...
Rafael E. Aleman, Xinhui Zhang, Raymond R. Hill
HEURISTICS
2010
13 years 4 months ago
Human-guided search
Gunnar W. Klau, Neal Lesh, Joe Marks, Michael Mitz...