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Cowling, P; Kendall, G and Soubeiga, E A Hyperheuristic Approach to Scheduling a Sales Summit. In Selected papers from the 3rd International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2001), pages 176-190, Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2079, 2001.

Abstract

The concept of a hyperheuristic is introduced as an approach that operates at a higher lever of abstraction than current metaheuristic approaches. The hyperheuristic manages the choice of which lowerlevel heuristic method should be applied at any given time, depending upon the characteristics of the region of the solution space currently under exploration. We analyse the behaviour of several different hyperheuristic approaches for a real-world personnel scheduling problem. Results obtained show the effectiveness of our approach for this problem and suggest wider applicability of hyperheuristic approaches to other problems of scheduling and combinatorial optimisation.

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@INPROCEEDINGS{cks2001, author = {P. Cowling and G. Kendall and E. Soubeiga},
title = {A Hyperheuristic Approach to Scheduling a Sales Summit},
booktitle = {Selected papers from the 3rd International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2001)},
year = {2001},
editor = {E. Burke and W. Erben},
volume = {2079},
series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
pages = {176--190},
publisher = {Springer},
abstract = {The concept of a hyperheuristic is introduced as an approach that operates at a higher lever of abstraction than current metaheuristic approaches. The hyperheuristic manages the choice of which lowerlevel heuristic method should be applied at any given time, depending upon the characteristics of the region of the solution space currently under exploration. We analyse the behaviour of several different hyperheuristic approaches for a real-world personnel scheduling problem. Results obtained show the effectiveness of our approach for this problem and suggest wider applicability of hyperheuristic approaches to other problems of scheduling and combinatorial optimisation.},
doi = {10.1007/3-540-44629-X_11},
keywords = {hyper-heuristic, hyperheuristic, schedules, sales summit, choice function},
timestamp = {2007.03.29},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44629-X},
webpdf = {http://www.graham-kendall.com/papers/cks2001.pdf} }