Exploring Experts Decisions in Concrete Delivery Dispatching Systems Using Bayesian Network Learning Techniques
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Abstract
Optimally solving large scale Ready Mixed Concrete Dispatching Problems (RMCDPs) in polynomial time is a crucial issue and, in the absence of automated solutions, experts are hired to handle resource allocation tasks in concrete dispatching centres. Therefore, in the Ready Mixed Concrete (RMC) industry, the performance of experts is accepted as the only practical solution, although there is no benchmark for assessing the quality of their decisions. This paper aims to discover the experts' decisions in the RMC context by using Bayesian Network. Finding the optimum graph in Bayesian Network is NP-hard, therefore, this research uses a wide range of heuristic search algorithms (Hill Climbing, K2, Look Ahead Hill Climbing, Repeated Hill Climbing, Tabu Search, Simulated Annealing and Genetic Algorithm). A large scale dataset gathered from an active RMC was used for evaluating the proposed idea. Results show that Simulated Annealing search algorithm outperformed other search algorithms, although there is not a significant difference between them. However, interpreting the network obtained by Simulated Annealing involves much more effort than other networks with similar accuracy, such as K2.
Details
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | 2014 2nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Modelling and Simulation |
Editors | David Al-Dabass, Gregorio Romero, Emilio Corchado, Athanasios Pantelous, Ismail Saad, Alessandra Orsoni |
Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. |
Pages | 103-108 |
Number of pages | 6 |
ISBN (electronic) | 978-1-4799-7600-3, 978-1-4799-7599-0 |
Publication status | Published - 5 May 2014 |
Peer-reviewed | Yes |
Externally published | Yes |
Publication series
Series | International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Modelling and Simulation (AIMS) |
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Conference
Title | 2nd IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Modelling, and Simulation, AIMS 2014 |
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Duration | 18 - 20 November 2014 |
City | Madrid |
Country | Spain |
External IDs
ORCID | /0000-0002-2939-2090/work/141543801 |
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Keywords
- Bayesian Network, Experts' Decisions, Ready Mixed Concrete