A comparative study on evolutionary algorithms for the agent routing problem in multi-point dynamic task Online publication date: Mon, 05-Oct-2020
by Sai Lu; Bin Xin; Lihua Dou; Ling Wang
International Journal of Automation and Control (IJAAC), Vol. 14, No. 5/6, 2020
Abstract: The agent routing problem in multi-point dynamic task (ARP-MPDT) proposed recently is a novel permutation optimisation problem. In ARP-MPDT, a number of task points are located at different places and their states change over time. The agent must go to the task points in turn to execute the tasks, and the execution time of each task depends on the task state. The optimisation objective is to minimise the time for the agent to complete all the tasks. In this paper, five evolutionary algorithms are redesigned and tried to solve this problem, including a permutation genetic algorithm (GA), a variant of the particle swarm optimisation (PSO) and three variants of the estimation of distribution algorithm (EDA). In particular, a dual-model EDA (DM-EDA) employing two probability models was proposed. Finally, comparative tests confirm that the DM-EDA has a stronger adaptability than the other algorithms though GA performs better for the large-scale instances.
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