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A Fast Hybrid Primal Heuristic for Multiband Robust Capacitated Network Design with Multiple Time Periods

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  • We investigate the Robust Multiperiod Network Design Problem, a generalization of the Capacitated Network Design Problem (CNDP) that, besides establishing flow routing and network capacity installation as in a canonical CNDP, also considers a planning horizon made up of multiple time periods and protection against fluctuations in traffic volumes. As a remedy against traffic volume uncertainty, we propose a Robust Optimization model based on Multiband Robustness (Büsing and D'Andreagiovanni, 2012), a refinement of classical Gamma-Robustness by Bertsimas and Sim (2004) that uses a system of multiple deviation bands. Since the resulting optimization problem may prove very challenging even for instances of moderate size solved by a state-of-the-art optimization solver, we propose a hybrid primal heuristic that combines a randomized fixing strategy inspired by ant colony optimization and an exact large neighbourhood search. Computational experiments on a set of realistic instances from the SNDlib (2010) show that our original heuristic can run fast and produce solutions of extremely high quality associated with low optimality gaps.

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Author:Fabio D'Andreagiovanni, Jonatan Krolikowski, Jonad Pulaj
Document Type:ZIB-Report
Tag:Ant Colony Optimization; Capacitated Network Design; Exact Large Neighborhood Search; Metaheuristic; Multiband Robust Optimization; Multiperiod Design; Traffic Uncertainty
Date of first Publication:2014/10/21
Series (Serial Number):ZIB-Report (14-40)
ISSN:1438-0064
Published in:A rev. vers. appeared in: Applied Soft Computing, 26 (2015) pp. 497-507
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2014.10.016
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung
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