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Airline Crew Scheduling with Potts Neurons
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A Potts feedback neural network approach for finding good solutions to resource allocation problems with a nonfixed topology is presented. As a target application, the airline crew scheduling problem is chosen. The topological complication is handled by means of a propagator defined in terms of Potts neurons. The approach is tested on artificial random problems tuned to resemble real-world conditions. Very good results are obtained for a variety of problem sizes. The computer time demand for the approach only grows like (number of flights)3. A realistic problem typically is solved within minutes, partly due to a prior reduction of the problem size, based on an analysis of the local arrival and departure structure at the single airports.
Title: Airline Crew Scheduling with Potts Neurons
Description:
A Potts feedback neural network approach for finding good solutions to resource allocation problems with a nonfixed topology is presented.
As a target application, the airline crew scheduling problem is chosen.
The topological complication is handled by means of a propagator defined in terms of Potts neurons.
The approach is tested on artificial random problems tuned to resemble real-world conditions.
Very good results are obtained for a variety of problem sizes.
The computer time demand for the approach only grows like (number of flights)3.
A realistic problem typically is solved within minutes, partly due to a prior reduction of the problem size, based on an analysis of the local arrival and departure structure at the single airports.
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