An efficient Ant Colony algorithm based on wake-vortex modeling method for aircraft scheduling problem

The aircraft scheduling problem (ASP) is a salient problem in airport runway scheduling system. This paper originally proposes an Ant Colony (AC) algorithm based on the wake-vortex modeling (WVM) method for ASP. Numerical results validate that this new method has better performance than CPLEX, general AC algorithm, and approximation algorithm in Ma et al. (2014). It is a promising method to improve the efficiency of the aircraft scheduling system from a theoretical standpoint.