Title
A Simulated Annealing-Based Approach for the Optimization of Routine Maintenance Interventions.
Abstract
Metaheuristics are often adopted to solve optimization problems where some requests need to be scheduled among a finite number of resources, i.e., the so called scheduling problems. Such techniques approach the optimization problems by taking inspiration from a certain physical phenomenon. Simulated annealing is a metaheuristic approach inspired to the controlled cooling of a material from a high temperature to a state in which internal defects of the crystals are minimized. In this paper, we use a simulated annealing-based approach to solve the problem of the scheduling of geographically distributed routine maintenance interventions. Each intervention has to be assigned to a maintenance team and the choice among the available teams and the order in which interventions are performed by each team are based on team skills, cost of overtime work, and cost of transportation. We compare our solution algorithm versus an exhaustive approach. First, we consider a real industrial use case and show several numerical results to analyze the effect of the parameters of the simulated annealing on the accuracy of the solution and on the execution time of the algorithm. Then, we provide results varying the parameters and dimension of the considered problem high-lighting how they affect reliability and efficiency of our algorithm.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/978-3-319-29133-8_13
Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Routine maintenance interventions,Metaheuristic approaches,Simulated annealing,Scheduling problems,Optimization problems
Planned maintenance,Simulated annealing,Data mining,Mathematical optimization,Psychological intervention,Computer science,Scheduling (computing),Execution time,Optimization problem,Management science,Metaheuristic
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
241
1865-1348
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
2
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Francesco Longo119419.93
Andrea Rocco Lotronto200.34
Marco Scarpa351846.93
Antonio Puliafito41562145.29