Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

5-2004

Abstract

This paper is motivated by a recent trend in logistics scheduling, called Available-to-Promise. We model this problem as the multi-period multi-dimensional knapsack problem. We provide some properties for a special case of a single-dimensional problem. Based on insights obtained from these properties, we propose a two-phase heuristics for solving the multi-dimensional problem. We also propose a novel time-based ant colony optimization algorithm. The quality of the solutions generated is verified through experiments, where we demonstrate that the computational time is superior compared with integer programming to achieve solutions that are within a small percentage of the upper bounds.

Keywords

multi-dimensional knapsack problem, logistics, tabu search, ant colony

Discipline

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics | Business | Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering

Publication

Int'l Symposium on Scheduling (ISS)

First Page

94

Last Page

99

City or Country

Hyogo, Japan

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