Optimizing the vehicle routes in the presence of shift management


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Tezin Türü: Doktora

Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Marmara Üniversitesi, Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Türkiye

Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2021

Tezin Dili: İngilizce

Öğrenci: GÖZDE ALP

Danışman: Ali Fuat Alkaya

Açık Arşiv Koleksiyonu: AVESİS Açık Erişim Koleksiyonu

Özet:

Shift scheduling and vehicle routing processes are indispensable while planning most of the business operations. In this study, we firstly handled these processes separately and then we combined them. In the first part of the study; the mathematical formulation of a fairness oriented shift scheduling problem (FOSSP) is offered. A novel hybrid algorithm that has hyper heuristic (HH) neighborhood search behaviors embedded in migrating birds optimization (MBO) is introduced (HHMBO). HHMBO is applied on FOSSP and is compared with the reputed algorithms through extended computational experiments. Results prove that new hybrid computational intelligence technique is promising especially for large sized FOSSP instances. In the second part of the study; the workforce scheduling and vehicle routing problems are brought together and vehicle routing problem in the presence of shift assignment (VRPSA) is introduced to the literature. The multi-objective mathematical model of the problem is verified on a solver and also solved using a set of evolutionary algorithms. Dynamic neighbour generation framework for multi-objective optimization problems is introduced to the literature for solving VRPSA. Experimental results show that the proposed framework is definitely promising and robust in large sized problem instances in terms of hypervolume (HV) and inverted generational distance (IGD) metrics. Additional experiments are conducted on multi-objective benchmark problems to analyze the achievement of DNG framework. DNG is integrated to a set of multi-objective optimization algorithms. Experiments demonstrate that DNG based versions of algorithms are significantly better than their original variations on the average in terms of both IGD and HV metrics.