Title
The museum visitor routing problem
Abstract
In the museum visitor routing problem (MVRP), each visitor group has some exhibit rooms of interest. The visiting route of a certain visitor group requires going through all the exhibit rooms that the group wants to visit. Routes need to be scheduled based on certain criteria to avoid congestion and/or prolonged touring time. In this study, the MVRP is formulated as a mixed integer program which is an extension of the open shop scheduling (OSS) problem in which visitor groups and exhibit rooms are treated as jobs and machines, respectively. The time each visitor group spends in an exhibit room is analogous to the processing time required for each job on a particular machine. The travel time required from one exhibit room to another is modeled as the sequence-dependent setup time on a machine, which is not considered in the OSS problem. Due to the intrinsic complexity of the MVRP, a simulated annealing (SA) approach is proposed to solve the problem. Computational results indicate that the proposed SA approach is capable of obtaining high quality MVRP solutions within a reasonable amount of computational time and enables the approach to be used in practice.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1016/j.amc.2010.01.066
Applied Mathematics and Computation
Keywords
Field
DocType
sequence dependent setup time,simulated annealing,open shop scheduling problem,museum visitor routing problem,scheduling problem
Integer,Simulated annealing,Mathematical optimization,Scheduling (computing),Open-shop scheduling,Operations research,Travel time,Visitor pattern,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
216
3
Applied Mathematics and Computation
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
14
0.88
22
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Vincent F. Yu142427.32
Shih-Wei Lin2105946.26
Shuo-Yan Chou353748.50