Title
New Bounds for Office Space Allocation using Tabu Search.
Abstract
The Office Space Allocation problem is a combinatorial optimization problem which focuses into determining the way to assign spaces to entities in order to optimize the use of available space in an organization. This allocation process considers a set of preferences, constraints and requirements. In this paper we propose a metaheuristic approach that includes a construction step and an improvement step, based on Greedy and Tabu Search techniques respectively. Here, we propose a construction method specially designed to deal with the misused space and hard/soft constraints of the problem. Then, Tabu Search performs a fast analysis that allows it to find good quality neighborhoods to analyze. We used an automated tuning method to determine the best parameter values for the entire set of benchmarks. Results show that our approach was able to obtain new lower bounds for seven problem instances.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1145/2908812.2908932
GECCO
Keywords
Field
DocType
Office space allocation, local search, greedy, tabu search
Mathematical optimization,Guided Local Search,Combinatorial optimization problem,Computer science,Space allocation,Artificial intelligence,Local search (optimization),Construction method,Machine learning,Tabu search,Metaheuristic
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
7
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Francisco Castillo100.34
María Cristina Riff2176.72
Elizabeth Montero332.05