Improving metaheuristic performance by evolving a variable fitness function.
In this paper we study a complex real world workforce scheduling problem. We apply constructive search and variable neighbourhood search (VNS) metaheuristics and enhance these methods by using a variable fitness function. The variable fitness function (VFF) uses an evolutionary approach to evolv...
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| Language: | en |
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Springer Verlag
2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10454/2498 |