Local Search meta-heuristics are an emerging class of methods for tackling combinatorial search and optimization problems, which recently have been shown to be very effective for a large number of combinatorial problems. The Local Search techniques are based on the iterative exploration of a solution space: at each iteration, a Local Search algorithm steps from one solution to one of its “neigh...

In this paper we propose neighborhood search (NS) assisted Swarm Intelligence (SI) technique for efficient Multi-input Multi-output (MIMO) receiver. The proposed NS-SI detection method iteratively decodes complex modulation schemes in MIMO system. The simulation results reveal that with this proposed NS-SI detection algorithm near optimal performance is achieved. The performance of proposed det...

Given an undirected graph G = (V,E) with vertex set V = {1, ..., n} and edge set E ⊆ V × V . Let w : V → Z be a weighting function that assigns to each vertex i ∈ V a positive integer. The maximum weight clique problem (MWCP) is to determine a clique of maximum weight. This paper introduces a tabu search heuristic whose key features include a combined neighborhood and a dedicated tabu mechanism...

Among the methods to deal with optimization tasks, parallel metaheuristics have been used in many real-world and scientific applications to efficiently solve these kind of problems. This paper presents a novel Multi Improvement strategy for dealing with the Minimum Latency Problem (MLP), an extension the classic Traveling Salesman Problem. This strategy is embedded in a Graphics Processing Unit...

A VNS-based heuristic using both a facility as well as a customer type neighbourhood structure is proposed to solve the p-centre problem in the continuous space. Simple but effective enhancements to the original Elzinga-Hearn algorithm as well as a powerful ‘locate-allocate’ local search used within VNS are proposed. In addition, efficient implementations in both neighbourhood structures are pr...

In this study, a two phase hybrid heuristic approach was proposed to solve the multi-depot multi-vehicle inventory routing problem (MDMVIRP). Inventory routing problem (IRP) is one of the major issues in the supply chain networks that arise in the context of vendor managed systems (VMI) The MDMVIRP combines inventory management and routing decision. We are given on input a fleet of homogeneous ...

The multi-depot fleet size and mix vehicle routing problem, also known as the multi-depot routing with heterogeneous vehicles, is investigated. A mathematical formulation is given and lower as well as upper bounds are produced using a three hour execution time of CPLEX. An efficient implementation of variable neighborhood search that incorporates new features in addition to the adaptation of se...

The reload cost spanning tree problem (RCSTP) is an NP-hard problem, where we are given a set of nonnegative pairwise demands between nodes, each edge is colored and a reload cost is incurred when a color change occurs on the path between a pair of demand nodes. The goal is to find a spanning tree with minimum reload cost. We propose a tree-nontree edge swap neighborhood for the RCSTP and an ef...