The Airport Gate Assignment Problem: A Survey

Table 4

Number of publications per research area.

Area	Number of publications	References
Integer linear programming (IP)	3	Lim et al. [24], Diepen et al. [25], Diepen et al. [26]
Binary integer programming	6	Mangoubi and Mathaisel [11], Yan et al. [29], Vanderstraeten and Bergeron [28], Bihr [12], Tang et al. [27], Prem Kumar and Bierlaire [18]
Mixed integer linear programming (MILP)	3	Bolat [30], Bolat [31], Kaliszewski and Miroforidis [37]
Mixed integer nonlinear programming	3	Li [5, 32], Bolat [31]
Quadratic programming (QP)	6	Bolat [34], Zheng et al. [33], Xu and Bailey [14], Ding et al. [6, 7, 35]
Multiple objective GAP formulations	5	Hu and Di Paolo [36], Wei and Liu [16], B.A.C.o.E.B. Team and A.I.C.o.E. Team [17], Yan and Huo [2], Kaliszewski and Miroforidis [37]
Stochastic models	3	Yan and Tang [10], Genç et al. [38], Şeker and Noyan [9]
Quadratic assignment problem (QAP)	2	Drexl and Nikulin [3], Haghani and Chen [13]
Scheduling problems	1	Li [39]
Clique partitioning problem (CPP)	1	Dorndorf et al. [8]
Network representation	1	Diepen et al. [41]
Robust optimization	1	Maharjan and Matis [40]
Exact algorithms	7	Mangoubi and Mathaisel [11], Bihr [12], Yan and Huo [2], Bolat [30, 34]; Xu and Bailey [14]; Li [39]
Heuristic algorithms	16	Thengvall et al. [43], Yan and Tang [10], Ding et al. [6, 35], Lim et al. [24], Diepen et al. [25], Dorndorf et al. [8], Mangoubi and Mathaisel [11], Vanderstraeten and Bergeron [28], Yan et al. [29], Bolat [30, 34], Haghani and Chen [13], Genç [42], B.A.C.o.E.B. Team and A.I.C.o.E. Team [17], Bouras et al. [45]
Metaheuristic algorithms	14	Ding et al. [6, 35], Ding et al. [7], Lim et al. [24], Hu and Di Paolo [36], Drexl and Nikulin [3], Xu and Bailey [14], Bolat [31], Şeker and Noyan [9], Zheng et al. [33], Wei and Liu [16], Gu and Chung [44], Cheng et al. [23], Bouras et al. [45]
OPL	4	Li [5, 32], Tang et al. [27], Prem Kumar and Bierlaire [18], Maharjan and Matis [40]