Research Article

A New Formulation of the Set Covering Problem for Metaheuristic Approaches

Table 2

Airline and bus driver crew scheduling problems.

Characteristics Cost Number of moves
Instance Size Density Best known DH GH DH GH

AA03 106 8661 4.05% 33155 34637 35642 48 61
AA04 106 8002 4.05% 34573 36153 36749 45 62
AA05 105 7435 4.05% 31623 32249 32995 45 65
AA06 105 6951 4.11% 37464 38043 39422 43 70
AA11 271 4413 2.53% 35478 36965 39054 76 90
AA12 272 4208 2.52% 30815 33663 34044 77 85
AA13 265 4025 2.60% 33211 36337 37345 77 91
AA14 266 3868 2.50% 33219 36048 36530 77 95
AA15 267 3701 2.58% 34409 36269 37996 73 94
AA16 265 3558 2.63% 32752 36185 37160 79 85
AA17 264 3425 2.61% 31612 34326 36484 69 91
AA18 271 3314 2.55% 36782 39594 40603 84 101
AA19 263 3202 2.63% 32317 34749 36093 71 92
AA20 269 3095 2.58% 34912 37047 37744 82 86
BUS1 454 2241 1.89% 27947 28871 29673 88 100
BUS2 681 9524 0.51% 67760 69685 70606 282 280