کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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476547 | 1445998 | 2015 | 13 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |

• New methodology for multi-attribute combinatorial optimization.
• Decomposition method based on decision-set attributes of the problem.
• New cooperative search framework with adaptive search-guidance mechanism.
• Extensive numerical experiments to characterize the new methodology.
• Improve the state-of-art for the multi-depot, periodic vehicle routing problem.
We introduce the integrative cooperative search method (ICS), a multi-thread cooperative search method for multi-attribute combinatorial optimization problems. ICS musters the combined capabilities of a number of independent exact or meta-heuristic solution methods. A number of these methods work on sub-problems defined by suitably selected subsets of decision-set attributes of the problem, while others combine the resulting partial solutions into complete ones and, eventually, improve them. All these methods cooperate through an adaptive search-guidance mechanism, using the central-memory cooperative search paradigm. Extensive numerical experiments explore the behavior of ICS and its interest through an application to the multi-depot, periodic vehicle routing problem, for which ICS improves the results of the current state-of-the-art methods.
Journal: European Journal of Operational Research - Volume 246, Issue 2, 16 October 2015, Pages 400–412