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A comparative analysis of several neighborhood structures is presented, including a variable neighborhood structure, which corresponds to a combination of the neighborhood structures evaluated in this paper. The performance of each neighborhood structure was tested using large random instances generated in this research and well-known benchmarks such as the Classical Symmetric Traveling Salesman Problem and the Unrelated Parallel Machines Problem. Experimental results show differences in the performance of the variable neighborhood search when it is applied to problems with differing complexity. Contrary to reports in literature about variable neighborhood searches, its performance varies according to the complexity of the problem.
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Cruz-Chávez, M.A., Martínez-Oropeza, A., del Carmen Peralta-Abarca, J., Cruz-Rosales, M.H., Martínez-Rangel, M. (2014). Variable Neighborhood Search for Non-deterministic Problems. In: Rutkowski, L., Korytkowski, M., Scherer, R., Tadeusiewicz, R., Zadeh, L.A., Zurada, J.M. (eds) Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing. ICAISC 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8468. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07176-3_41
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