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In this paper the liner shipping crew scheduling problem is described and modelled. Three different models have been formulated and tested for the scheduling problem. A mixed integer formulation and a set covering formulation are constructed and solved using exact methods. A mat-heuristic based on column generation has been implemented and tested. Moreover, a simple heuristic is implemented as a benchmark value. The models and methods were tested on smaller instances of the problem. The results show that good results can be achieved within 5 min using the heuristic and around an hour using the set partitioning formulation.
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Sereno, V.M., Reinhardt, L.B., Guericke, S. (2018). Exact Methods and Heuristics for the Liner Shipping Crew Scheduling Problem. In: Cerulli, R., Raiconi, A., Voß, S. (eds) Computational Logistics. ICCL 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11184. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00898-7_24
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