Title
Structural Synthesis of Dispatching Rules for Dynamic Dial-a-Ride Problems
Abstract
The dial-a-ride problem consists of designing vehicle routes in the area of passenger transportation. Assuming that each vehicle can act autonomously, the problem can be modeled as a multi-agent system. In that context, it is a complex decision process for each agent to determine what action to perform next. In this work, the agent function is evolved using genetic programming by synthesizing basic bits of information. Specialized dispatching rules are synthesized automatically that are adapted to the problem environment. We compare the evolved rules with other dispatching strategies for dynamic dial-a-ride problems on a set of generated benchmark instances. Additionally, since genetic programming is a whitebox-based approach, insights can be gained about important system parameters. For that purpose, we perform a variable frequency analysis during the evolutionary process.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1007/978-3-642-53856-8_35
EUROCAST (1)
Keywords
Field
DocType
genetic programming
Computer science,Genetic programming,Artificial intelligence,Decision process
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
8111
0302-9743
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.40
10
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Stefan Vonolfen1111.96
Andreas Beham27720.20
Michael Kommenda39715.58
Michael Affenzeller433962.47