Paper Info
Title
Configuring an evolutionary tool for the inventory and transportation problem
Abstract
EVITA, standing for Evolutionary Inventory and TransportationAlgorithm, aims to be a commercial tool to addressthe problem of minimising both the transport and inventorycosts of a retail chain that is supplied from a centralwarehouse. In this paper we study different issues involvedin finding the appropriate settings for EVITA, so that itcan be employed by a non-expert user over wide range ofproblems.The aim is not to define a new algorithm for resolutionof the ITP, but to determine whether it is possible to finda set of input parameters that can provide good results ona wide range of problem configurations, hence eliminatingthe need for user adjustment once the tool is employed in acommercial setting.We focus on the influence of three parameters: the populationsize, the tournament size and the mutation probability.After extensive experimentation and statistical analysis weare able to find a good configuration for the three factors.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1145/1276958.1277350
GECCO
Keywords
Field
DocType
transportation problem,evolutionary inventory,wide range ofproblems,non-expert user,acommercial setting,evolutionary tool,user adjustment,wide range,commercial tool,problem configuration,good result,good configuration,statistical analysis,evolutionary algorithm,evolutionary algorithms
Tournament,Mathematical optimization,Evolutionary algorithm,Computer science,Transportation theory,Statistical analysis
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.43
11
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Anna I. Esparcia-Alcazár1745.98
Lidia Lluch-Revert2132.63
Manuel Cardós3564.58
Ken Sharman49714.40
J. J. Merelo536333.51