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An Approach to Solve the Set Covering Problem with the Soccer League Competition Algorithm

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Abstract

The Soccer League Competition algorithm (SLC) is a new nature-based metaheuristic approach to solve optimization problems. It gets its basis model from the interaction between soccer teams and their players in a soccer league competition, where each player (feasible solution) compete for victory and be the best player.

This paper presents a review of the underlaying SLC model and a practical approach to solve the Set Covering Problem using SLC and Python as programming language and tested over a widely OR-Library SCP benchmarks to obtain convergence capability and effectiveness of the implementation.

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Broderick Crawford is supported by Grant CONICYT/FONDECYT/REGULAR/1140897. Ricardo Soto is supported by Grant CONICYT/FONDECYT/REGULAR/1160455. Sebastiásn Mansilla, Álvaro Gómez and Juan Salas are supported by Postgraduate Grant Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaiso 2015 (INF-PUCV 2015).

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  1. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile

    Adrián Jaramillo, Broderick Crawford, Ricardo Soto, Álvaro Gómez Rubio, Juan Salas & Sebastián Mansilla Villablanca

  2. Universidad Central de Chile, Santiago, Chile

    Broderick Crawford

  3. Universidad San Sebastian, Santiago, Chile

    Broderick Crawford

  4. Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria

    Sanjay Misra & Eduardo Olguín

  5. Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Peru

    Ricardo Soto

  6. Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Santiago, Chile

    Ricardo Soto

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Jaramillo, A. et al. (2016). An Approach to Solve the Set Covering Problem with the Soccer League Competition Algorithm. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2016. ICCSA 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9786. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42085-1_29

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