MAP-Elites based Hyper-Heuristic for the Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problem

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2204.11162v1
• Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2022 01:49:59 GMT
• Title: MAP-Elites based Hyper-Heuristic for the Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problem
• Authors: Shelvin Chand, Kousik Rajesh, Rohitash Chandra
• Abstract summary: Resource constrained project scheduling problem (RCPSP) is an NP-Hard optimization problem. We present a MAP-Elites based hyper-heuristic (MEHH) for the automated discovery of efficient priority rules for RCPSP.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The resource constrained project scheduling problem (RCPSP) is an NP-Hard combinatorial optimization problem. The objective of RCPSP is to schedule a set of activities without violating any activity precedence or resource constraints. In recent years researchers have moved away from complex solution methodologies, such as meta heuristics and exact mathematical approaches, towards more simple intuitive solutions like priority rules. This often involves using a genetic programming based hyper-heuristic (GPHH) to discover new priority rules which can be applied to new unseen cases. A common problem affecting GPHH is diversity in evolution which often leads to poor quality output. In this paper, we present a MAP-Elites based hyper-heuristic (MEHH) for the automated discovery of efficient priority rules for RCPSP. MAP-Elites uses a quality diversity based approach which explicitly maintains an archive of diverse solutions characterised along multiple feature dimensions. In order to demonstrate the benefits of our proposed hyper-heuristic, we compare the overall performance against a traditional GPHH and priority rules proposed by human experts. Our results indicate strong improvements in both diversity and performance. In particular we see major improvements for larger instances which have been under-studied in the existing literature.

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