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Metaheuristic methods based on Tabu search for assigning judges to competitions

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  • Amina Lamghari
  • Jacques Ferland

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Two metaheuristic methods based on Tabu search are introduced to assign judges to individual competitions in a tournament. The complexity of the mathematical formulation accounting for the assignment rules, leads us to use such an approach. The first metaheuristic includes two different Tabu searches that are combined with a diversification strategy. The second metaheuristic is applied to a penalized version of the original model formulated as an assignment problem. This metaheuristic is also based on a Tabu search procedure including a diversification strategy driven by the constraints violated. Numerical results are provided to indicate the efficiency of the methods to generate very good solutions. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010

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  • Amina Lamghari & Jacques Ferland, 2010. "Metaheuristic methods based on Tabu search for assigning judges to competitions," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 180(1), pages 33-61, November.
  • Handle: RePEc:spr:annopr:v:180:y:2010:i:1:p:33-61:10.1007/s10479-008-0498-8
    DOI: 10.1007/s10479-008-0498-8
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