Heuristics for the Stochastic Eulerian Tour Problem |
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Authors: | Srimathy Mohan Michel Gendreau Jean-Marc Rousseau |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Supply Chain Management, W.P. Carey School of Business, MC 2451, Arizona State University, P.O. Box 37100, Phoenix, AZ 85069-7100, USA;2. Interuniversity Research Centre on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation (CIRRELT), Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, Succursale Centre-Ville, Montréal, Canada H3C 3J7 |
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Abstract: | The Stochastic Eulerian Tour Problem (SETP) seeks the Eulerian tour of minimum expected length on an undirected Eulerian graph, when demand on the arcs that have to be serviced is probabilistic. The SETP is NP-hard and in this paper, we develop three constructive heuristics for this problem. The first two are greedy tour construction heuristics while the third is a sub-tour concatenation heuristic. Our experimental results show that for grid networks, the sub-tour concatenation heuristic performs well when the probability of service of each edge is greater than 0.1. For Euclidean networks, as the number of edges increases, the second heuristic performs the best among the three. Also, the expected length of our overall best solution is lower than the expected length of a random tour by up to 10% on average for grid networks and up to 2% for Euclidean networks. |
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Keywords: | Routing Arc routing Eulerian Tour Problem Stochastic demand Heuristics |
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