Heuristical labour scheduling to optimize airport passenger flows

S Casado, M Laguna () and J Pacheco
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S Casado: Facultad C. Económicas y Empresariales, Pza. Infanta Elena, s/n.
M Laguna: University of Colorado
J Pacheco: Facultad C. Económicas y Empresariales, Pza. Infanta Elena, s/n.

Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2005, vol. 56, issue 6, 649-658

Abstract: Abstract We describe the development and implementation of a decision support system for the optimization of passenger flow by trading off service quality and labour costs at an airport. The system integrates a simulation module with an optimization module that requires that Dantzig's labour scheduling problem be solved in the order of thousands of times. We developed a customized scatter search to give the system the capability of finding high-quality solutions to the labour scheduling problems in short computational times. Our experiments verify that our scatter search implementation meets the needed requirements.

Keywords: labour scheduling; scatter search; GRASP; path relinking (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601859

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