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A Neighbor Selection Technique for Improving Efficiency of Local Search in Load Balancing Problems  

강병호 (부산대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
조민숙 (ERP 컨설팅 프리랜)
류광렬 (부산대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
Abstract
For a local search algorithm to find a bettor quality solution it is required to generate and evaluate a sufficiently large number of candidate solutions as neighbors at each iteration, demanding quite an amount of CPU time. This paper presents a method of selectively generating only good-looking candidate neighbors, so that the number of neighbors can be kept low to improve the efficiency of search. In our method, a newly generated candidate solution is probabilistically selected to become a neighbor based on the quality estimation determined heuristically by a very simple evaluation of the generated candidate. Experimental results on the problem of load balancing for production scheduling have shown that our candidate selection method outperforms other random or greedy selection methods in terms of solution quality given the same amount of CPU time.
Keywords
scheduling; load balancing; local search; neighbor selection techniques;
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