Exploiting fitness distance correlation of set covering problems


Autoria(s): Finger, Markus; Stützle, Thomas; Ramalhinho-Lourenço, Helena
Contribuinte(s)

Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa

Data(s)

15/09/2005

Resumo

The set covering problem is an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problemthat arises in applications ranging from crew scheduling in airlines todriver scheduling in public mass transport. In this paper we analyze searchspace characteristics of a widely used set of benchmark instances throughan analysis of the fitness-distance correlation. This analysis shows thatthere exist several classes of set covering instances that have a largelydifferent behavior. For instances with high fitness distance correlation,we propose new ways of generating core problems and analyze the performanceof algorithms exploiting these core problems.

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http://hdl.handle.net/10230/1147

Idioma(s)

eng

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Palavras-Chave #Operations Management #set covering #iterated local search
Tipo

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