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Kovač, Nataša (Beograd , 2018)[more][less]
Abstract: Dissertation title : Metaheuristic approach for solving one class of optimization problems in transp ort Abstract : Berth Allo cation Problem incorp orates some of the most imp ortant de- cisions that have to b e made in order to achieve maximum e ciency in a p ort. Terminal manager of a p ort has to assign incoming vessels to the available b erths, where they will b e loaded/unloaded in such a way that some ob jective function is optimized. It is well known that even the simpler variants of Berth Allo cation Problem are NP-hard, and thus, metaheuristic approaches are more convenient than exact metho ds, b ecause they provide high quality solutions in reasonable compu- tational time. This study considers two variants of the Berth Allo cation Problem: Minimum Cost Hybrid Berth Allo cationProblem (MCHBAP) and Dynamic Mini- mum Cost Hybrid Berth Allo cationProblem (DMCHBAP), b oth with xed handling times of vessels. Ob jective function to b e minimized consists of the following com- p onents: costs of p ositioning, sp eeding up or waiting of vessels, and tardiness of completion for all vessels. Having in mind that the sp eed of nding high-quality solutions is of crucial imp ortance for designing an e cient and reliable decision supp ort system in container terminal, metaheuristic metho ds represent the natural choice when dealing with MCHBAP and DMCHBAP. This study examines the fol- lowing metaheuristic approaches for b oth typ es of a given problem: two variants of the Bee Colony Optimization (BCO), two variants of the Evolutionary Algorithm (EA), and four variants of Variable Neighb orho o d Search (VNS). All metaheuristics are evaluated and compared against each other and against exact metho ds inte- grated in commercial CPLEX solver on real-life instances from the literature and randomly generated instances of higher dimensions. The analysis of the obtained results shows that on real-life instances all metaheuristics were able to nd optimal solutions in short execution times. Randomly generated instances were out of reach for exact solver due to time or memory limits, while metaheuristics easily provided high-quality solutions in short CPU time in each run. The conducted computational analysis indicates that metaheuristics represent a promising approach for MCHBAP and similar problems in maritime transp ortation. The results presented in this pap er represent a contribution to the elds of combinatorial optimization, op erational research, metaheuristic metho ds, and b erth allo cation problem in the container terminals. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/4747 Files in this item: 1
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