Article ID: | iaor20063446 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 10 |
Issue: | 2 |
Publication Date: | Jun 2003 |
Journal: | International Journal of Industrial Engineering |
Authors: | Malmborg Charles J. |
Keywords: | neural networks, scheduling |
A simulated annealing procedure is proposed as an alternative for scheduling document retrieval from retail bank offices. The new scheduling tool yields high solution quality more efficiently by addressing performance and implementation problems with random search methods; trapping at local minima and path dependency. Performance comparisons are based on sample problems generated to resemble those in the application environment.