Crew pairing optimization based on hybrid approaches

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 87-96

  Aydemir Karadag, Ayyuce ^a   Dengiz, Berna ^a   Bolat, Ahmet ^b  

^a BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b TURKISH AIRLINES   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Column generation; Crew pairing; Crew scheduling; Genetic algorithm

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; COSTS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GRAPH THEORY; HEURISTIC METHODS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS;

COLUMN GENERATION; COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS; CREW PAIRING; CREW SCHEDULING; INTEGER PROGRAMMING MODELS; SET COVERING PROBLEM; SHORTEST PATH PROBLEM; SOLUTION ALGORITHMS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84876955558     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2011.12.005     Document Type: Article

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