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Large neighborhood improvements for solving car sequencing problems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2007

Bertrand Estellon ,
Frédéric Gardi  and
Karim Nouioua
Bertrand Estellon
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale – CNRS UMR 6166, Université de la Méditerranée – Aix-Marseille II, Parc Scientifique et Technologique de Luminy, case 901, 163 avenue de Luminy, 13288 Marseille Cedex 9, France; bertrand.estellon@lif.univ-mrs.fr
Frédéric Gardi
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale – CNRS UMR 6166, Université de la Méditerranée – Aix-Marseille II, Parc Scientifique et Technologique de Luminy, case 901, 163 avenue de Luminy, 13288 Marseille Cedex 9, France; bertrand.estellon@lif.univ-mrs.fr EXPERIAN-PROLOGIA, Parc Scientifique et Technologique de Luminy, case 919, bâtiment CCIMP, 13288 Marseille Cedex 9, France; fgardi@experian-prologia.fr
Karim Nouioua
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale – CNRS UMR 6166, Université de la Méditerranée – Aix-Marseille II, Parc Scientifique et Technologique de Luminy, case 901, 163 avenue de Luminy, 13288 Marseille Cedex 9, France; bertrand.estellon@lif.univ-mrs.fr
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Abstract

The NP-hard problem of car sequencing has received a lot of attention these last years. Whereas a direct approach based on integer programming or constraint programming is generally fruitless when the number of vehicles to sequence exceeds the hundred, several heuristics have shown their efficiency. In this paper, very large-scale neighborhood improvement techniques based on integer programming and linear assignment are presented for solving car sequencing problems. The effectiveness of this approach is demonstrated through an experimental study made on seminal CSPlib's benchmarks.

Keywords

Combinatorial optimizationcar sequencing/schedulingvery large-scale neighborhood searchinteger programmingassignment.
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Research Article
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RAIRO - Operations Research , Volume 40 , Issue 4: Journées Francophones de Programmation par Contraintes 2005 , October 2006 , pp. 355 - 379
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© EDP Sciences, 2007

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