- Title
- The non-smooth and bi-objective team orienteering problem with soft constraints
- Creator
- Estrada-Moreno, Alejandro; Ferrer, Albert; Juan, Angel; Panadero, Javier; Bagirov, Adil
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/174395
- Identifier
- vital:14821
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.3390/math8091461
- Identifier
- ISBN:2227-7390 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- In the classical team orienteering problem (TOP), a fixed fleet of vehicles is employed, each of them with a limited driving range. The manager has to decide about the subset of customers to visit, as well as the visiting order (routes). Each customer offers a different reward, which is gathered the first time that it is visited. The goal is then to maximize the total reward collected without exceeding the driving range constraint. This paper analyzes a more realistic version of the TOP in which the driving range limitation is considered as a soft constraint: every time that this range is exceeded, a penalty cost is triggered. This cost is modeled as a piece-wise function, which depends on factors such as the distance of the vehicle to the destination depot. As a result, the traditional reward-maximization objective becomes a non-smooth function. In addition, a second objective, regarding the design of balanced routing plans, is considered as well. A mathematical model for this non-smooth and bi-objective TOP is provided, and a biased-randomized algorithm is proposed as a solving approach. © 2020 by the authors.; This work has been partially supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness & FEDER (SEV-2015-0563), the Spanish Ministry of Science (PID2019-111100RB-C21, RED2018-102642-T), and the Erasmus+ Program (2019-I-ES01-KA103-062602).
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Relation
- Mathematics Vol. 8, no. 9 (2020), p.
- Rights
- Metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Rights
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Rights
- Copyright @ 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license.
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- 0101 Pure Mathematics; Biased-randomized algorithms; Multi-objective optimization; Non-smooth optimization; Soft constraints; Team orienteering problem
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- Funder
- This work has been partially supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness & FEDER (SEV-2015-0563), the Spanish Ministry of Science (PID2019-111100RB-C21, RED2018-102642-T), and the Erasmus+ Program (2019-I-ES01-KA103-062602).
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