Research Article

Improved Combinatorial Benders Decomposition for a Scheduling Problem with Unrelated Parallel Machines

Table 2

Results of average percentage gap for the first MP solution using instances from Vallada and Ruiz (2011).

Average
% gapTime% gapTime% gapTime% gapTime% gapTime

201.220.172.560.393.001.043.151.702.480.82
300.880.331.560.961.883.562.5110.501.713.84
400.560.581.211.411.707.071.9836.381.3611.36
500.341.190.762.301.3011.922.16106.811.1430.56
600.321.230.703.471.1231.441.87228.161.0066.08

Average0.660.701.361.711.8011.012.3376.71ā€‰ā€‰