一种求解旅行商问题的高效混合遗传算法

旅行商问题(TravellingSalesmanProblemTSP)是一个典型的组合优化难题,论文提出一种求解旅行商问题的高效混合遗传算法。该算法结合遗传算法和2-opt邻域搜索优化技术,并针对旅行商问题的特点,提出K近邻点集以缩减搜索空间从而加快求解速度。基于典型实例的仿真结果表明,此算法的求解效率比较高。     

求解TSP的自适应优秀系数粒子群优化算法

针对基本离散粒子群优化（PSO）算法求解旅行售货商问题（TSP）时容易陷入局部最优解和早熟收敛的问题,提出了一种基于自适应优秀系数的粒子群（SECPSO）算法。为了提高算法的全局搜索能力,在已有工作的基础上,进一步利用启发式信息对静态的路径优秀系数进行修改,使之可根据解的搜索过程进行自适应动态调整;另外,为了进一步提高解的精确性和算法的收敛速度,添加了3-opt搜索机制,提高算法的局部搜索能力。利用Matlab进行了实验仿真,用国际通用的TSP数据库（TSPLIB）中的若干经典实例对算法性能进行了测试。实验结果表明,与其他几种算法相比,SECPSO算法在全局寻优能力和更快的收敛速度方面表现更优,是求解TSP问题的一种有潜力的智能算法。     

A hybrid algorithm combining glowworm swarm optimization and complete 2-opt algorithm for spherical travelling salesman problems

The Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) is one of the most well-known combinatorial optimization problems and has attracted a lot of interests from researchers. Many studies have proposed various methods for solving the two-dimensional TSP. In this study, we extend the two-dimensional TSP to the three-dimensional TSP, namely the spherical TSP in which all points (cities) and paths (solutions) are on the surface of a sphere. A hybrid algorithm based on the glowworm swarm optimization (GSO) and the complete 2-opt algorithm is proposed, in which the carriers of the luciferin are transformed from glowworms to edges between cities, and the probabilistic formula and the luciferin updating formula are modified. In addition, the complete 2-opt algorithm is performed to optimize the selected optimal routes every few iterations. Numerical experimental results show that the proposed algorithm has a better performance than the basic GSO in solving the spherical TSP. Meanwhile, the complete 2-opt algorithm can speed up the convergence rate.     

Group-scheduling problems in electronics manufacturing

This paper addresses the flowshop group-scheduling problems typically encountered in the assembly of printed circuit boards in electronics manufacturing. A mathematical programming model is formulated to capture the characteristics inherent to group-scheduling problems experienced in electronics manufacturing as well as those common to a wide range of group-scheduling problems encountered in other production environments. Several heuristics, each incorporating different components that underlie the tabu search concept, are developed to solve this strongly NP-hard problem effectively in a timely manner. In order to investigate the quality of the heuristic solutions with respect to tight lower bounds, an effective and efficient decomposition approach is developed. The problem is decomposed into a master problem and single-machine subproblems, and a column generation algorithm is developed to solve the linear programming relaxation of the master problem. Branching schemes, compatible with the column generation subproblems, are employed to partition the solution space when the solution to the linear programming relaxation is not integral. Furthermore, tabu search based fast heuristics are implemented to solve the subproblems, and an effective stabilization method is developed to accelerate the column generation approach. An experimental design with both fixed and random factors accompanied by rigorous statistical analyses of computational tests conducted on randomly generated test problems as well as on a large size real industry problem confirm the high performance of the proposed approach in identifying quality lower bounds and strongly suggest its flexibility and applicability to a wide range of real problems.     

Discrete symbiotic organisms search algorithm for travelling salesman problem

A Discrete Symbiotic Organisms Search (DSOS) algorithm for finding a near optimal solution for the Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) is proposed. The SOS is a metaheuristic search optimization algorithm, inspired by the symbiotic interaction strategies often adopted by organisms in the ecosystem for survival and propagation. This new optimization algorithm has been proven to be very effective and robust in solving numerical optimization and engineering design problems. In this paper, the SOS is improved and extended by using three mutation-based local search operators to reconstruct its population, improve its exploration and exploitation capability, and accelerate the convergence speed. To prove that the proposed solution approach of the DSOS is a promising technique for solving combinatorial problems like the TSPs, a set of benchmarks of symmetric TSP instances selected from the TSPLIB library are used to evaluate its performance against other heuristic algorithms. Numerical results obtained show that the proposed optimization method can achieve results close to the theoretical best known solutions within a reasonable time frame.     

Implementation of an Effective Hybrid GA for Large-Scale Traveling Salesman Problems

This correspondence describes a hybrid genetic algorithm (GA) to find high-quality solutions for the traveling salesman problem (TSP). The proposed method is based on a parallel implementation of a multipopulation steady-state GA involving local search heuristics. It uses a variant of the maximal preservative crossover and the double-bridge move mutation. An effective implementation of the Lin-Kernighan heuristic (LK) is incorporated into the method to compensate for the GA's lack of local search ability. The method is validated by comparing it with the LK-Helsgaun method (LKH), which is one of the most effective methods for the TSP. Experimental results with benchmarks having up to 316 228 cities show that the proposed method works more effectively and efficiently than LKH when solving large-scale problems. Finally, the method is used together with the implementation of the iterated LK to find a new best tour (as of June 2, 2003) for a 1 904 711-city TSP challenge     

Memetic算法在板坯排序中的应用

热轧带钢生产中的板坯排序是一种复杂的组合优化问题,可以归结为一个PCTSP问题。Memetic算法(种群全局搜索和启发式局部搜索的结合),被用来求解热轧板坯排序。考虑到热轧生产约束的特点,提出了一种初始解构造策略,并利用缩减3-opt邻域搜索算法进行局部优化。仿真结果表明了该算法的优化效果和时间效率都是令人满意的。     

A hybrid genetic algorithm for component sequencing and feeder arrangement

This paper presents a hybrid genetic algorithm to optimize the sequence of component placements on a printed circuit board and the arrangement of component types to feeders simultaneously for a pick-and-place machine with multiple stationary feeders, a fixed board table and a movable placement head. The objective of the problem is to minimize the total traveling distance, or the traveling time, of the placement head. The genetic algorithm developed in the paper hybridizes different search heuristics including the nearest neighbor heuristic, the 2-opt heuristic, and an iterated swap procedure, which is a new improving heuristic. Compared with the results obtained by other researchers, the performance of the hybrid genetic algorithm is superior to others in terms of the distance traveled by the placement head.     

TSP问题的一种改进的GRASP算法

本文对Marinakis等提出的扩展邻域GRASP算法进行改进。首先使用最近α值方法构造初始TSP回路,然后运用混合的局部搜索即2-opt算法、双桥策略和3-opt算法来改进初始回路,并且引进α-nearness候选集和don’t-lookbit技术来提高搜索速度。实验结果表明,本文提出的GRASP能够在合理的时间内得到很好的解,并且解的质量优于M~rinakis等提出的扩展邻域GRASP算法得到的解。     

A local search based approach for solving the Travelling Thief Problem: The pros and cons

The Travelling Thief Problem (TTP) is a novel problem that aims to provide a benchmark model of combinatorial optimization problems with multiple interdependent components. The TTP combines two other well known benchmark problems: the Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) and the Knapsack Problem (KP). The aim of this paper is to study the interdependence between the TTP's components, and how it makes solving each sub-problem independently from the other useless for solving the overall problem. A local search approach is proposed to solve the TTP. Two simple iterative neighborhood algorithms based on our approach are presented, analyzed, and compared to other algorithms. Initialization strategies are empirically investigated. The experimental results confirm that our approach was able to find new better solutions for many TTP instances.     

Approximating the Pareto curve with local search for the bicriteria TSP(1,2) problem

Local search has been widely used in combinatorial optimization (Local Search in Combinatorial Optimization, Wiley, New York, 1997), however, in the case of multicriteria optimization almost no results are known concerning the ability of local search algorithms to generate “good” solutions with performance guarantee. In this paper, we introduce such an approach for the classical traveling salesman problem (TSP) problem (Proc. STOC’00, 2000, pp. 126–133). We show that it is possible to get in linear time, a -approximate Pareto curve using an original local search procedure based on the 2-opt neighborhood, for the bicriteria TSP(1,2) problem where every edge is associated to a couple of distances which are either 1 or 2 (Math. Oper. Res. 18 (1) (1993) 1).     

Ant colony system: a cooperative learning approach to the travelingsalesman problem

This paper introduces the ant colony system (ACS), a distributed algorithm that is applied to the traveling salesman problem (TSP). In the ACS, a set of cooperating agents called ants cooperate to find good solutions to TSPs. Ants cooperate using an indirect form of communication mediated by a pheromone they deposit on the edges of the TSP graph while building solutions. We study the ACS by running experiments to understand its operation. The results show that the ACS outperforms other nature-inspired algorithms such as simulated annealing and evolutionary computation, and we conclude comparing ACS-3-opt, a version of the ACS augmented with a local search procedure, to some of the best performing algorithms for symmetric and asymmetric TSPs     

Heuristic approaches to the asymmetric travelling salesman problem with replenishment arcs

The Asymmetric Travelling Salesman Problem with Replenishment Arcs (RATSP) is a new class of problem arising from work related to aircraft routing. This paper describes the problem and presents heuristic approaches for solving the RATSP. We use simulated annealing to obtain feasible solutions, and hence, upper bounds on the optimum value, and solve a Lagrangean dual problem using a subgradient optimization method to obtain lower bounds. While previous methods failed to obtain optimal solutions to some problem classes after 2 h of computation time, with average gaps ranging from 15% to 30%, our heuristic approaches take only 15–20 min to obtain feasible solutions, with gaps of less than 3%. We give computational results comparing these approaches.     

A novel feature-based approach to characterize algorithm performance for the traveling salesperson problem

Meta-heuristics are frequently used to tackle NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems. With this paper we contribute to the understanding of the success of 2-opt based local search algorithms for solving the traveling salesperson problem (TSP). Although 2-opt is widely used in practice, it is hard to understand its success from a theoretical perspective. We take a statistical approach and examine the features of TSP instances that make the problem either hard or easy to solve. As a measure of problem difficulty for 2-opt we use the approximation ratio that it achieves on a given instance. Our investigations point out important features that make TSP instances hard or easy to be approximated by 2-opt.     

Two simple and effective heuristics for minimizing the makespan in non-permutation flow shops

We propose a constructive and an iterated local search heuristic for minimizing the makespan in the non-permutation flow shop scheduling problem. Both heuristics are based on the observation that optimal non-permutation schedules often exhibit a permutation structure with a few local job inversions. In computational experiments we compare our heuristics to the best heuristics for finding non-permutation and permutation flow shop schedules, and evaluate the reduction in makespan and buffer size that can be achieved by non-permutation schedules.     

Perturbed Decomposition Algorithm applied to the multi-objective Traveling Salesman Problem

Dealing with multi-objective combinatorial optimization, this article proposes a new multi-objective set-based meta-heuristic named Perturbed Decomposition Algorithm (PDA). Combining ideas from decomposition methods, local search and data perturbation, PDA provides a 2-phase modular framework for finding an approximation of the Pareto front. The first phase decomposes the search into a number of linearly aggregated problems of the original multi-objective problem. The second phase conducts an iterative process: aggregated problems are first perturbed then selected and optimized by an efficient single-objective local search solver. Resulting solutions will serve as a starting point of a multi-objective local search procedure, called Pareto Local Search. After presenting a literature review of meta-heuristics on the multi-objective symmetric Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), we conduct experiments on several instances of the bi-objective and tri-objective TSP. The experiments show that our proposed algorithm outperforms the best current methods on this problem.     

A parallel iterated tabu search heuristic for vehicle routing problems

This paper introduces a parallel iterated tabu search heuristic for solving four different routing problems: the classical vehicle routing problem (VRP), the periodic VRP, the multi-depot VRP, and the site-dependent VRP. In addition, it is applicable to the time-window constrained variant of these problems. Using the iterated local search framework, the heuristic combines tabu search with a simple perturbation mechanism to ensure a broad exploration of the search space. We also describe a parallel implementation of the heuristic to take advantage of multiple-core processors. Extensive computational results show that the proposed heuristic outperforms tabu search alone and is competitive with recent heuristics designed for each particular problem.     

An iterative genetic algorithm for the assembly line worker assignment and balancing problem of type-II

In this study, we consider the assembly line worker assignment and balancing problem of type-II (ALWABP-2). ALWABP-2 arises when task times differ depending on operator skills and concerns with the assignment of tasks and operators to stations in order to minimize the cycle time. We developed an iterative genetic algorithm (IGA) to solve this problem. In the IGA, three search approaches are adopted in order to obtain search diversity and efficiency: modified bisection search, genetic algorithm and iterated local search. When designing the IGA, all the parameters such as construction heuristics, genetic operators and local search operators are adapted specifically to the ALWABP-2. The performance of the proposed IGA is compared with heuristic and metaheuristic approaches on benchmark problem instances. Experimental results show that the proposed IGA is very effective and robust for a large set of benchmark problems.     

A population-based iterated greedy algorithm for the minimum weight vertex cover problem

Given an undirected, vertex-weighted graph, the goal of the minimum weight vertex cover problem is to find a subset of the vertices of the graph such that the subset is a vertex cover and the sum of the weights of its vertices is minimal. This problem is known to be NP-hard and no efficient algorithm is known to solve it to optimality. Therefore, most existing techniques are based on heuristics for providing approximate solutions in a reasonable computation time.Population-based search approaches have shown to be effective for solving a multitude of combinatorial optimization problems. Their advantage can be identified as their ability to find areas of the space containing high quality solutions. This paper proposes a simple and efficient population-based iterated greedy algorithm for tackling the minimum weight vertex cover problem. At each iteration, a population of solutions is established and refined using a fast randomized iterated greedy heuristic based on successive phases of destruction and reconstruction. An extensive experimental evaluation on a commonly used set of benchmark instances shows that our algorithm outperforms current state-of-the-art approaches.     

An iterated tabu search for the multi-compartment vehicle routing problem

We study a variant of the vehicle routing problem that allows vehicles with multiple compartments. The need for multiple compartments frequently arises in practical applications when there are several products of different quality or type, that must be kept or handled separately. The resulting problem is called the multi-compartment vehicle routing problem (MCVRP). We propose a tabu search heuristic and embed it into a iterated local search to solve the MCVRP. In several experiments we analyze the performance of the iterated tabu search and compare it to results from the literature. We find that it consistently produces solutions that are better than existing heuristic algorithms.