Abstract. In this paper, we review some classical recombination operations and devise new heuristic recombinations for the fixed-length subset. Our experimental results on the cla...
This paper deals with large-scale crew scheduling problems arising at the Dutch railway operator, Netherlands Railways (NS). We discuss several methods to partition large instances...
Erwin J. W. Abbink, Joel Van't Wout, Dennis Huisma...
Disruptions in trips can prevent vehicles from executing their schedules as planned. Mechanical failures, accidents, and traffic congestion often hinder a vehicle schedule. When a...
Jing-Quan Li, Denis Borenstein, Pitu B. Mirchandan...
A meta-GA (GA within a GA) is used to investigate evolving the parameter settings of genetic operators for genetic and evolutionary algorithms (GEA) in the hope of creating a self...
Jeff Clune, Sherri Goings, Bill Punch, Eric Goodma...
This contribution addresses the consideration of time windows in the optimization of multi-commodity network flows. For each node, one interval is specified in which the visitati...