Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

8-2014

Abstract

This paper presents a generalization of the Orienteering Problem, the Time-Dependent Orienteering Problem (TDOP) which is based on the real-life application of providing automatic tour guidance to a large leisure facility such as a theme park. In this problem, the travel time between two nodes depends on the time when the trip starts. We formulate the problem as an integer linear programming (ILP) model. We then develop various heuristics in a step by step fashion: greedy construction, local search and variable neighborhood descent, and two versions of iterated local search. The proposed metaheuristics were tested on modified benchmark instances, randomly generated problem instances, and two real world problem instances extracted from two popular theme parks in Asia. Experimental results confirm the effectiveness of the developed metaheuristic approaches, especially an iterated local search with adaptive perturbation size and probabilistic intensified restart mechanism. It finds within an acceptably short computation time, the optimal or near optimal solutions for TDOP instances of realistic size as in our target application.

Keywords

Time-Dependent Orienteering Problem, Integer Linear Programming, Metaheuristics, Iterated Local Search

Discipline

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics | Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing | Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering

Publication

PATAT 2014: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling, 26-29 August 2014

First Page

202

Last Page

217

ISBN

9780992998400

Publisher

PATAT

City or Country

York, UK

Copyright Owner and License

LARC

Additional URL

http://www.patatconference.org/patat2014/proceedings/2_11.pdf

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