A New Heuristic for the Generalized Assignment Problem

  • Joo, Jaehun (Department of Information Industry, Dongguk University)
  • Published : 1997.05.01

Abstract

The Generalized Assignment Problem(GAP) determines the minimum assignment of n tasks to m workstations such that each task is assigned to exactly one workstation, subject to the capacity of a workstation. In this paper, we presented a new heuristic search algorithm for GAPs. then we tested it on 4 different benchmark sample sets of random problems generated according to uniform distribution on a microcomputer.

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