A new metaheuristic based on vapor-liquid equilibrium for solving a new patient bed assignment problem.
Carla TaramascoBroderick CrawfordRicardo SotoEnrique Cortés-ToroRodrigo OlivaresPublished in: Expert Syst. Appl. (2020)
Keyphrases
- metaheuristic
- combinatorial optimization
- tabu search
- ant colony optimization
- simulated annealing
- scatter search
- optimization problems
- search space
- mip solver
- genetic algorithm
- path relinking
- particle swarm optimization
- vehicle routing problem
- hybrid algorithms
- optimal solution
- combinatorial problems
- iterated local search
- guided local search
- suboptimal solutions
- hybrid metaheuristic
- harmony search
- nature inspired
- variational inequalities
- benchmark instances
- np hard
- variable neighborhood search
- multi start
- benchmark problems
- mathematical programming
- metaheuristic algorithms
- traveling salesman problem
- linear programming
- search algorithm
- evolutionary algorithm
- np complete
- mathematical model
- timetabling problem
- feasible solution
- specially designed
- branch and bound algorithm
- solution quality