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COR
2010
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Hybridization of very large neighborhood search for ready-mixed concrete delivery problems
Companies in the concrete industry are facing the following scheduling problem on a daily basis: concrete produced at several plants has to be delivered at customers' constru...
Verena Schmid, Karl F. Doerner, Richard F. Hartl, ...
TASE
2008
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
New Solution Approaches to the General Single- Machine Earliness-Tardiness Problem
This paper addresses the general single-machine earliness-tardiness problem with distinct release dates, due dates, and unit costs. The aim of this research is to obtain an exact n...
Hoksung Yau, Yunpeng Pan, Leyuan Shi
CORR
2008
Springer
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An Indirect Genetic Algorithm for a Nurse Scheduling Problem
This paper describes a Genetic Algorithms approach to a manpower-scheduling problem arising at a major UK hospital. Although Genetic Algorithms have been successfully used for sim...
Uwe Aickelin, Kathryn A. Dowsland
CPAIOR
2010
Springer
15 years 23 days ago
Hybrid Methods for the Multileaf Collimator Sequencing Problem
Abstract. The multileaf collimator sequencing problem is an important component of the effective delivery of intensity modulated radiotherapy used in the treatment of cancer. The p...
Hadrien Cambazard, Eoin O'Mahony, Barry O'Sullivan
CSCLP
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
A Hybrid Benders' Decomposition Method for Solving Stochastic Constraint Programs with Linear Recourse
Abstract. We adopt Benders’ decomposition algorithm to solve scenariobased Stochastic Constraint Programs (SCPs) with linear recourse. Rather than attempting to solve SCPs via a ...
Armagan Tarim, Ian Miguel