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Title: |
Solving Non-Quadratic
Matrices In Assignment Problems With An Improved Version Of Vogel's
Approximation Method |
Authors: |
Maximilian
Selmair, Alexander Swinarew, Klaus-Jürgen Meier, Yi Wang |
Published in: |
(2019). ECMS 2019
Proceedings Edited by: Mauro Iacono, Francesco Palmieri, Marco Gribaudo,
Massimo Ficco, European Council for Modeling and Simulation. DOI: http://doi.org/10.7148/2019 ISSN:
2522-2422 (ONLINE) ISSN:
2522-2414 (PRINT) ISSN:
2522-2430 (CD-ROM) 33rd International ECMS Conference on
Modelling and Simulation,
Caserta, Italy, June 11th – June 14th, 2019 |
Citation
format: |
Maximilian Selmair, Alexander Swinarew, Klaus-Jürgen Meier, Yi Wang (2019). Solving Non-Quadratic Matrices In Assignment Problems With An Improved Version Of Vogel's Approximation Method, ECMS 2019 Proceedings Edited by: Mauro Iacono, Francesco Palmieri, Marco Gribaudo, Massimo Ficco European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi: 10.7148/2019-0261 |
DOI: |
https://doi.org/10.7148/2019-0261 |
Abstract: |
The efficient
allocation of tasks to vehicles in a fleet of self-driving vehicles (SDV)
becomes challenging for large-scale systems (e. g. more than hundred
vehicles). Operations research provides different methods that can be applied
to solve such assignment problems. Integer Linear Programming (ILP), the
Hungarian Method (HM) or Vogel’s Approximation Method (VAM) are frequently
used in related literature (Paul 2018; Dinagar and Keerthivasan 2018; Nahar et
al. 2018; Ahmed et al. 2016; Koruko˘glu and Ballı 2011; Balakrishnan 1990).
The under-lying paper proposes an adapted version of VAM
which reaches better solutions for non-quadratic matrices, namely
Vogel’s Approximation Method for non-quadratic Matrices (VAM-nq).
Subsequently, VAM-nq is compared with ILP, HM and VAM by solving matrices of
different sizes in computational experiments in order to determine the
proximity to the optimal solution and the computation time. The experimental
results demonstrated that both VAM and VAM-nq are five to ten times faster in
computing results than HM and ILP across all tested matrix sizes. However, we
proved that VAM is not able to generate optimal solutions in large quadratic
matrices constantly (starting at approx. 15 × 15) or small non-quadratic
matrices (starting at approx. 5 × 6). In fact, we show that VAM produces
insufficient results especially for non-quadratic matrices. The result
deviate further from the optimum if the matrix size increases. Our proposed
VAM-nq is able to provide similar results as the original VAM for quadratic
matrices, but delivers much better results in non-quadratic instances often
reaching an optimum solution. This is especially important for practical use
cases since quadratic matrices are rather rare. |
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