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Population Heuristics for the Corridor Allocation Problem

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  • Ghosh, Diptesh
  • Kothari, Ravi

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The corridor allocation problem is one of assigning a given set of facilities in two rows along a straight corridor so as to minimize a weighted sum of the distances between every pair of facilities. This problem has practical applications in arrangements of rooms in oces and in hospitals. The problem is NP-hard. In this paper, we present two population based metaheuristic implementations for the problem; a genetic algorithm with local search embedded in it, and a scatter search algorithm with path relinking. We report the results of our experiments with these algorithms on benchmark instances with up to 49 facilities.

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  • Ghosh, Diptesh & Kothari, Ravi, 2012. "Population Heuristics for the Corridor Allocation Problem," IIMA Working Papers WP2012-09-02, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Research and Publication Department.
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