Title
A beam-search approach to the set covering problem
Date Issued
01 January 2016
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Springer Verlag
Abstract
In this work we present a beam-search approach applied to the Set Covering Problem. The goal of this problem is to choose a subset of columns of minimal cost covering every row. Beam Search constructs a search tree by using a breadthfirst search strategy, however only a fixed number of nodes are kept and the rest are discarded. Even though original beam search has a deterministic nature, our proposal has some elements that makes it stochastic. This approach has been tested with a well-known set of 45 SCP benchmark instances from OR-Library showing promising results.
Start page
395
End page
402
Volume
464
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias de la computación
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84964699789
ISSN of the container
21945357
ISBN of the container
978-331933623-7
Conference
Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing - 5th Computer Science On-line Conference, CSOC 2016
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