Hyperheuristic Based Migrating Birds Optimization Algorithm for a Fairness Oriented Shift Scheduling Problem

The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, it introduces a new hybrid computational intelligence algorithm to the optimization community. This novel hybrid algorithm has hyperheuristic (HH) neighborhood search movements embedded into a recently introduced migrating birds optimization (MBO) algorit...

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Autores principales: Gözde Alp, Ali Fuat Alkaya
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:0f4399638b834077984ad71236287f012021-11-15T01:19:29ZHyperheuristic Based Migrating Birds Optimization Algorithm for a Fairness Oriented Shift Scheduling Problem1563-514710.1155/2021/6756588https://doaj.org/article/0f4399638b834077984ad71236287f012021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/6756588https://doaj.org/toc/1563-5147The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, it introduces a new hybrid computational intelligence algorithm to the optimization community. This novel hybrid algorithm has hyperheuristic (HH) neighborhood search movements embedded into a recently introduced migrating birds optimization (MBO) algorithm. Therefore, it is called HHMBO. Second, it gives the necessary mathematical model for a shift scheduling problem of a manufacturing company defined by including the fairness perspective, which is typically ignored especially in manufacturing industry. Therefore, we call this complex optimization problem fairness oriented integrated shift scheduling problem (FOSSP). HHMBO is applied on FOSSP and is compared with the well-known simulated annealing, hyperheuristics, and classical MBO algorithms through extended computational experiments on several synthetic datasets. Experiments demonstrate that the new hybrid computational intelligence algorithm is promising especially for large sized instances of the specific problem defined here. HHMBO has a high exploration capability and is a promising technique for all optimization problems. To justify this assertion, we applied HHMBO to the well-known quadratic assignment problem (QAP) instances from the QAPLIB. HHMBO was up to 14.6% better than MBO on converging to the best known solutions for QAP benchmark instances with different densities. We believe that the novel hybrid method and the fairness oriented model presented in this study will give new insights to the decision-makers in the industry as well as to the researchers from several disciplines.Gözde AlpAli Fuat AlkayaHindawi LimitedarticleEngineering (General). Civil engineering (General)TA1-2040MathematicsQA1-939ENMathematical Problems in Engineering, Vol 2021 (2021)
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Gözde Alp
Ali Fuat Alkaya
Hyperheuristic Based Migrating Birds Optimization Algorithm for a Fairness Oriented Shift Scheduling Problem
description The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, it introduces a new hybrid computational intelligence algorithm to the optimization community. This novel hybrid algorithm has hyperheuristic (HH) neighborhood search movements embedded into a recently introduced migrating birds optimization (MBO) algorithm. Therefore, it is called HHMBO. Second, it gives the necessary mathematical model for a shift scheduling problem of a manufacturing company defined by including the fairness perspective, which is typically ignored especially in manufacturing industry. Therefore, we call this complex optimization problem fairness oriented integrated shift scheduling problem (FOSSP). HHMBO is applied on FOSSP and is compared with the well-known simulated annealing, hyperheuristics, and classical MBO algorithms through extended computational experiments on several synthetic datasets. Experiments demonstrate that the new hybrid computational intelligence algorithm is promising especially for large sized instances of the specific problem defined here. HHMBO has a high exploration capability and is a promising technique for all optimization problems. To justify this assertion, we applied HHMBO to the well-known quadratic assignment problem (QAP) instances from the QAPLIB. HHMBO was up to 14.6% better than MBO on converging to the best known solutions for QAP benchmark instances with different densities. We believe that the novel hybrid method and the fairness oriented model presented in this study will give new insights to the decision-makers in the industry as well as to the researchers from several disciplines.
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Ali Fuat Alkaya
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Ali Fuat Alkaya
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title Hyperheuristic Based Migrating Birds Optimization Algorithm for a Fairness Oriented Shift Scheduling Problem
title_short Hyperheuristic Based Migrating Birds Optimization Algorithm for a Fairness Oriented Shift Scheduling Problem
title_full Hyperheuristic Based Migrating Birds Optimization Algorithm for a Fairness Oriented Shift Scheduling Problem
title_fullStr Hyperheuristic Based Migrating Birds Optimization Algorithm for a Fairness Oriented Shift Scheduling Problem
title_full_unstemmed Hyperheuristic Based Migrating Birds Optimization Algorithm for a Fairness Oriented Shift Scheduling Problem
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