Keyword: heuristics: tabu search

Found 337 papers in total
Managing the tabu list length using a fuzzy inference system: an application to examination timetabling
2012,
In this paper, we present an application of Tabu Search (TS) to the examination...
A tabu search approach to solve the capacitated examination timetabling in the new Faculty of Education of the University of Seville
2011,
Spanish university degrees have recently been adapted to the European Higher Education...
Transshipment service through crossdocks with both soft and hard time windows
2012,
Recently, crossdocking techniques have been successfully applied in responsive supply...
A Genetic/Tabu Thresholding Hybrid Algorithm for the Process Allocation Problem
1997,
In this paper we describe an hybrid heuristic approach, which combines Genetic...
Metaheuristics for a Flexible Assembly System Design Problem
1997,
Flexibility has become an important priority in the formulation and implementation of...
Applying min–max k postmen problems to the routing of security guards
2012,
The most essential and alluring characteristic of a security estate is the estate's...
A hybrid shifting bottleneck procedure algorithm for the parallel‐machine job‐shop scheduling problem
2012,
In practice, parallel‐machine job‐shop scheduling (PMJSS) is very useful...
An incremental tabu search heuristic for the generalized vehicle routing problem with time windows
2012,
This paper describes an incremental neighbourhood tabu search heuristic for the...
A hyper‐solution framework for classification problems via metaheuristic approaches
2011,
This is a summary of the author’s PhD thesis, supervised by Prof. Domenico...
A decision method for supplier selection in multi‐service outsourcing
2011,
Although supplier selection in multi‐service outsourcing is a very important...
Minimax optimisation approach for the Robust Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and uncertain travel times
2011,
This paper focuses on the Robust Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows...
A competitive facility location model with elastic demand and patronising behaviour sensitive to location, price and waiting time
2011,
This paper develops a model for facility location optimisation of an entrant firm in a...
A hybrid genetic algorithm and tabu search approach for post enrolment course timetabling
2011,
The post enrolment course timetabling problem (PECTP) is one type of university course...
Tabu search techniques for the heterogeneous vehicle routing problem with time windows and carrier‐dependent costs
2011,
In this work we formalize a new complex variant of the classical vehicle routing...
Heuristics for quay crane scheduling at indented berth
2011,
This paper discusses the quay crane scheduling problem at indented berth, an extension...
A heterogeneous cooperative parallel search of branch‐and‐bound method and tabu search algorithm
2011,
In this study, we present a heterogeneous cooperative parallel search that integrates...
Service network design for freight railway transportation: the Italian case†
2011,
In this paper, we present a case study on freight railway transportation in Italy,...
A tabu search algorithm for the covering design problem
2011,
A ( v , k , t )‐covering design is a collection of k ‐subsets (called...
An efficient memetic algorithm for the graph partitioning problem
2011,
Given a graph and an integer k , the goal of the graph partitioning problem is to find...
Genetic Tabu search for robust fixed channel assignment under dynamic traffic data
2011,
The contribution of this work is twofold. Firstly, we introduce a new channel...
Optimizing capacity, pricing and location decisions on a congested network with balking
2011,
In this paper, we consider the problem of making simultaneous decisions on the...
Similarities between meta‐heuristics algorithms and the science of life
2011,
In this paper, we show the functional similarities between Meta‐heuristics and...
A tabu search tutorial based on a real‐world scheduling problem
2011,
We apply a tabu search method to a scheduling problem of a company producing cables...
Enhanced Branch and Price and Cut for Vehicle Routing with Split Deliveries and Time Windows
2011,
In this paper, we study the split delivery vehicle routing problem with time windows...
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