Evaluator, developed by the Combinatorial Optimization Team of the University of Osnabrück, for the INRC2010 benchmark [Haspeslagh et al 2014]. The INRC2010 benchmark has been proposed for the first International Nurse Rostering Competition held in 2010. The evaluator is based on the model given in [Lü and Hao 2012] and has been used in [Meignan et al. 2015], [Meignan 2014] and [Meignan 2015].
With the JAR file (available in the list of releases), you can run the evaluator directly from the command line using the command:
java -jar inrc2010evaluator-v1.0.jar -p [PROBLEM-FILE.xml] -s [SOLUTION-FILE.xml]
A series of tests has been developed to ensure that the evaluator is conform to the model presented in [Lü and Hao 2012]. These "unit test of constraints" are pairs of problem/solution that each tests a specific constraint. The test files and results are in the directory: https://github.com/dmeignan/INRC2010-UOS-evaluator/tree/master/fr.lalea.inrc2010evaluator/src/test/resources/inrc2010/constraint_unit_tests
[Haspeslagh et al 2014] S. Haspeslagh, P. D. Causmaecker, A. Schaerf, M. Stølevik, "The first international nurse rostering competition 2010", Annals of Operations Research, pp. 221-236, vol. 218, 2014.
[Lü and Hao 2009] Z. Lü, J.-K. Hao, "Adaptive neighborhood search for nurse rostering", European Journal of Operational Research, pp. 865-876, vol. 218, 2012. DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2011.12.016
[Meignan et al. 2015] D. Meignan, S. Schwarze and S. Voß, "Improving Local-Search Metaheuristics Through Look-Ahead Policies", Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence. DOI: 10.1007/s10472-015-9453-y
[Meignan 2014] D. Meignan, "A Heuristic Approach to Schedule Reoptimization in the Context of Interactive Optimization", In Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO'14), pp. 461-468, 2014. DOI: 10.1145/2576768.2598213
[Meignan 2015] D. Meignan, "An Experimental Investigation of Reoptimization for Shift Scheduling", In Proceedings of the 11th Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC'15), Agadir, Morocco, June 7-10, 2015.
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