A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SOLVING QUADRATIC ASSIGNMENT PROBLEMS USING SOME STANDARD MINLP SOLVERS

Toni Lastusilta, Tapio Westerlund

2011

Abstract

The Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP) has important application areas, for example, facility layout (Dickey and Hopkins, 1972) and electronic component placement (Rabak and Sichman, 2003). The NP-hard problem already becomes difficult and time consuming to solve satisfactorily for small applications. It is therefore of interest to investigate how well standard MINLP methods can provide good solutions within a reasonable time, even though global optimality can not be guaranteed. In this study we focus on solving a subset of 50 problems in the QAP library (Burkard et al., 1997). We use a standard Mixed-Integer Non-Linear Programming (MINLP) formulation modelled in the General Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS) (Rosenthal, 2010). The solution quality and solution time is evaluated for the solvers AlphaECP, Bonmin, DICOPT and SBB. We compare the solvers when a 1 hour time limit per problem is used, where the solvers are started from 3 random start points, i.e. initial variable levels. Furthermore, we investigate how well the most promising solver DICOPT performs when started from 50 random start points for 22 problems for which the global optimal solution is known.

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Lastusilta T. and Westerlund T. (2011). A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SOLVING QUADRATIC ASSIGNMENT PROBLEMS USING SOME STANDARD MINLP SOLVERS . In Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH, ISBN 978-989-8425-78-2, pages 409-412. DOI: 10.5220/0003598604090412


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@conference{simultech11,
author={Toni Lastusilta and Tapio Westerlund},
title={ A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SOLVING QUADRATIC ASSIGNMENT PROBLEMS USING SOME STANDARD MINLP SOLVERS},
booktitle={Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH,},
year={2011},
pages={409-412},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003598604090412},
isbn={978-989-8425-78-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH,
TI - A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SOLVING QUADRATIC ASSIGNMENT PROBLEMS USING SOME STANDARD MINLP SOLVERS
SN - 978-989-8425-78-2
AU - Lastusilta T.
AU - Westerlund T.
PY - 2011
SP - 409
EP - 412
DO - 10.5220/0003598604090412