Keyword: tabu search

Found 125 papers in total
Solving the continuous location–allocation problem with Tabu Search
1996,
Several heuristic methods have been developed to solve the location–allocation...
Tabu meta-heuristic based on local search for the concave production–transportation problem
1996,
Recently, strongly polynomial time algorithms have been developed for special concave...
A reverse elimination approach for the p-median problem
1996,
The p-median problem is the well-known combinatorial optimisation problem of locating...
A nested location–routing heuristic using route length estimation
1996,
A nested heuristic approach that uses route length approximation is proposed to solve...
Intelligent scheduling with tabu search – an application to jobs with linear delay penalties and sequence-dependent setup costs and times
1993,
In this article we study the tabu search (TS) method in an application for solving an...
A tabu search approach for a single-machine batching problem using an efficient method to calculate a best neighbour
1998,
In this paper we present a tabu search approach for a single-machine batching problem....
A two-machine permutation flow shop scheduling problem with buffers
1998,
Problems with ‘blocking’ (limited intermediate storage space) are used...
Using hybrid of tabu search and expert systems to solve timetabling problems
1998,
Timetabling problems occur in virtually every high school, college and university. The...
A surrogate constraint tabu thresholding implementation for the frequency assignment problem
1999,
This paper presents a surrogate constraint tabu thresholding (SCTT) implementation for...
A tabu search approach to the uncapacitated facility location problem
1999,
In this paper, the uncapacitated facility location problem is considered. A tabu...
A parallel algorithm for the vehicle routing problem with time window constraints
1999,
In this paper, we describe a new parallel tabu search heuristic for the vehicle...
Tabu Search
1998,
Heuristic concentration and Tabu search: A head to head comparison
1998,
Earlier this year two papers applying the metaheuristics Tabu search (TS) and...
A tabu search Hooke and Jeeves algorithm for unconstrained optimization
1997,
This paper addresses the problem of finding the global minimum of a nonconvex...
A note on hashing functions and tabu search algorithms
1996,
Woodruff and Zemel present four effective functions that can be used for hashing...
Variable neighborhood search for the p-median
1997,
Consider a set L of potential locations for p facilitites and a set U of locations of...
A neighbourhood scheme with a compressed solution space for the early/tardy scheduling problem
1997,
The single machine, distinct due date, early/tardy machine scheduling problem closely...
Sequencing, lot sizing and scheduling of several products in job shops: The common cycle approach
1998,
This paper deals with the multi-product, finite horizon, static demand, sequencing,...
An efficient tabu search procedure for the p-Median Problem
1997,
In this paper we present a new solution heuristic for the p-Median Problem. The...
Search heuristics for a flowshop scheduling problem in a printed circuit board assembly process
1996,
We consider a scheduling problem in a factory producing printed circuit boards (PCBs)....
A fast tabu search algorithm for the permutation flow-shop problem
1996,
A fast and easily implementable approximation algorithm for the problem of finding a...
Tabu search for large location–allocation problems
1997,
Recently it has been demonstrated that the use of simulated annealing is a good...
Tabu-search for the multi-mode job-shop problem
1998,
In a multi-processor-tasks job-shop problem (MPTJSP) there is a machine set associated...
An AI approach with tabu search to solve multi-level knapsack problems using cycle detection, short-term and long-term memory
1997,
An AI approach with tabu search is designed to solve multi-level knapsack problems....
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