Hybridized evolutionary local search algorithm for the team orienteering problem with time windows

Hybridized evolutionary local search algorithm for the team orienteering problem with time windows

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Article ID: iaor201111625
Volume: 17
Issue: 6
Start Page Number: 729
End Page Number: 753
Publication Date: Dec 2011
Journal: Journal of Heuristics
Authors: , ,
Keywords: heuristics: local search
Abstract:

The orienteering problem (OP) consists in finding an elementary path over a subset of vertices. Each vertex is associated with a profit that is collected on the visitor’s first visit. The objective is to maximize the collected profit with respect to a limit on the path’s length. The team orienteering problem (TOP) is an extension of the OP where a fixed number m of paths must be determined. This paper presents an effective hybrid metaheuristic to solve both the OP and the TOP with time windows. The method combines the greedy randomized adaptive search procedure (GRASP) with the evolutionary local search (ELS). ELS generates multiple distinct child solutions using a mutation mechanism. Each child solution is further improved by a local search procedure. GRASP provides multiple starting solutions to the ELS. The method is able to improve several best known results on available benchmark instances.

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