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In the bus driver rostering (BDR) problem the objective is to define work schedules for drivers such that costs are minimized. This problem has been addressed before by combining column generation and an evolutionary algorithm. In this paper, we show improvements obtained by using perturbations in the column generation and limiting the time spent by column generation in each cycle of the algorithm. Both approaches follow a general framework entitled SearchCol, Metaheuristic search by column generation, recently proposed for decomposable integer programming/combinatorial optimization problems.
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This work is financed by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology) within projects “SearchCol: Metaheuristic search by column generation” (PTDC/EIAEIA/100645/2008) and PEst-OE/EEI/UI0319/2014.
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Barbosa, V., Alvelos, F., Respício, A. (2016). Bus Driver Rostering by Column Generation Metaheuristics. In: Fonseca, R., Weber, GW., Telhada, J. (eds) Computational Management Science. Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, vol 682. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20430-7_29
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