relax-and-fix

Improved Bounds for the Traveling Umpire Problem: A Stronger Formulation and a Relax-and-Fix Heuristic

  • Lucas de Oliveira
  • Cid C. de Souza
  • Tallys H. Yunes
    • Categories Meta Heuristics Tags , , ,

    Given a double round-robin tournament, the traveling umpire problem (TUP) consists of determining which games will be handled by each one of several umpire crews during the tournament. The objective is to minimize the total distance traveled by the umpires, while respecting constraints that include visiting every team at home, and not seeing a team … Read more

    A Heuristic Approach for Big Bucket Production Planning Problems

  • Kerem Akartunali
  • Andrew J. Miller
    • Categories Production and Logistics Tags , , , ,

    Multi-level production planning problems in which multiple items compete for the same resources frequently occur in practice, yet remain daunting in their difficulty to solve. In this paper we propose a heuristic framework that can generate high quality feasible solutions quickly for various kinds of lot-sizing problems. In addition, unlike many other heuristics, it generates … Read more