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JSW
2006
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13 years 4 months ago
Variable Neighbourhood Search for Job Shop Scheduling Problems
Variable Neighbourhood Search (VNS) is one of the most recent metaheuristics used for problem solving in which a systematic change of neighbourhood within a local search is carried...
Mehmet Sevkli, Mehmet Emin Aydin
COR
2010
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13 years 4 months ago
Variable neighbourhood decomposition search for 0-1 mixed integer programs
In this paper we propose a new hybrid heuristic for solving 0-1 mixed integer programs based on the principle of variable neighbourhood decomposition search. It combines variable ...
Jasmina Lazic, Saïd Hanafi, Nenad Mladenovic,...
EVOW
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Improving Metaheuristic Performance by Evolving a Variable Fitness Function
In this paper we study a complex real world workforce scheduling problem. We apply constructive search and variable neighbourhood search (VNS) metaheuristics and enhance these meth...
Keshav P. Dahal, Stephen Remde, Peter I. Cowling, ...
GECCO
2006
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
Neighbourhood searches for the bounded diameter minimum spanning tree problem embedded in a VNS, EA, and ACO
We consider the Bounded Diameter Minimum Spanning Tree problem and describe four neighbourhood searches for it. They are used as local improvement strategies within a variable nei...
Martin Gruber, Jano I. van Hemert, Günther R....