Title
Maximally diverse grouping: an iterated tabu search approach.
Abstract
The maximally diverse grouping problem (MDGP) consists of finding a partition of a set of elements into a given number of mutually disjoint groups, while respecting the requirements of group size constraints and diversity. In this paper, we propose an iterated tabu search (ITS) algorithm for solving this problem. We report computational results on three sets of benchmark MDGP instances of size up to 960 elements and provide comparisons of ITS to five state-of-the-art heuristic methods from the literature. The results demonstrate the superiority of the ITS algorithm over alternative approaches. The source code of the algorithm is available for free download via the internet.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1057/jors.2014.23
JORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
optimization,maximally diverse grouping,metaheuristics,tabu search
Heuristic,Mathematical optimization,Disjoint sets,Source code,Computer science,Partition of a set,Iterated function,Tabu search,The Internet,Metaheuristic
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
66
4
0160-5682
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.34
13
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
G. Palubeckis181.85
Armantas Ostreika221.71
Dalius Rubliauskas310.34