A Novel Generalised Meta-Heuristic Framework for Dynamic Capacitated Arc Routing Problems

04/14/2021
by   Hao Tong, et al.
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The capacitated arc routing problem (CARP) is a challenging combinatorial optimisation problem abstracted from typical real-world applications, like waste collection and mail delivery. However, few studies considered dynamic changes during the vehicles' service, which can make the original schedule infeasible or obsolete. The few existing studies are limited by dynamic scenarios that can suffer single types of dynamic events, and by algorithms that rely on special operators or representations, being unable to benefit from the wealth of contributions provided by the static CARP literature. Here, we provide the first mathematical formulation for dynamic CARP (DCARP) and design a simulation system to execute the CARP solutions and generate DCARP instances with several common dynamic events. We then propose a novel framework able to generalise all existing static CARP optimisation algorithms so that they can cope with DCARP instances. The framework has the option to enhance optimisation performance for DCARP instances based on a restart strategy that makes no use of past history, and a sequence transfer strategy that benefits from past optimisation experience. Empirical studies are conducted on a wide range of DCARP instances. The results highlight the need for tackling dynamic changes and show that the proposed framework significantly improves over existing algorithms.

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