Title
A compromised large-scale neighborhood search heuristic for capacitated air cargo loading planning
Abstract
Cost effectiveness is central to the air freight forwarders. In this work, we study how an air freight forwarder should plan its cargo loading in order to minimize the total freight cost given a limited number of rented containers. To solve the problem efficiently for practical implementation, we propose a new large-scale neighborhood search heuristic. The proposed large-scale neighborhood relaxes the subset-disjoint restriction made in the existing literature; the relaxation risks a possibility of infeasible exchanges while at the same time it avoids the potentially large amount of checking effort required to enforce the subset-disjoint restriction. An efficient procedure is then used to search for improvement in the neighborhood. We have also proposed a subproblem to address the difficulties caused by the fixed charges. The compromised large-scale neighborhood (CLSN) search heuristic has shown stably superior performance when compared with the traditional large-scale neighborhood search and the mixed integer programming model.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1016/j.ejor.2008.11.033
European Journal of Operational Research
Keywords
Field
DocType
Cargo loading problem,Large-scale neighborhood search,Heuristics,Decision support systems
Heuristic,Mathematical optimization,Freight forwarder,Decision support system,Air cargo,Operations research,Integer programming,Heuristics,Neighborhood search,Mathematics,Operations management
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
199
2
0377-2217
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.48
10
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yanzhi Li16711.56
Yi Tao2181.80
Fan Wang31429.55