Solving the Response Time Variability Problem by means of metaheuristics
Alberto García‐González, Rafael Pastor, Albert Corominas Subias · Conference on Artificial Intelligence Research and Development · 2006
The Response Time Variability Problem (RTVP) is a combinatorial NP-hard problem which has a wide range of real-life applications. It has recently appeared in the literature and has therefore not been widely discussed to date. The RTVP has been solved in other works by mixed integer linear programming (for small instances) and heuristics, but metaheuristic procedures have not previously been used. In this paper, a solution to the RTVP by means of multi-start, GRASP and PSO procedures is proposed. We report on our computational experiments and draw conclusions.