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On One Bicriterion Discrete Optimization Problem and a Hybrid Ant Colony Algorithm for Its Approximate Solution

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The bicriteria optimization problem of many projects developments’ schedules with many competitive constraints on resources and interval constraints on the execution time and cost of operations is formulated in this article. Optimization is carried out according to the maximizing performance and the total cost of project execution criteria. The problem is NP-hard MILP and an efficient hybrid parametric algorithm that combines the critical path algorithm and ant colony optimization has been developed for its approximate solution. The actual performance and solutions’ quality of the hybrid algorithm’s software implementation have been compared with the results of IBM CPLEX on test problems. The effectiveness of the toolkit is confirmed experimentally by testing.

The research is supported by Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Russian Federation (project No. FSUN-2020-0009).

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Mezentsev, Y.A., Chubko, N.Y. (2021). On One Bicriterion Discrete Optimization Problem and a Hybrid Ant Colony Algorithm for Its Approximate Solution. In: Tan, Y., Shi, Y. (eds) Advances in Swarm Intelligence. ICSI 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12689. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78743-1_26

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