TY - GEN
T1 - Balancing the workload of the traveling salesman of cows artificial insemination services
AU - Shneider, B.
AU - Eben Chaime, M.
AU - Gilad, D.
AU - Halachmi, I.
PY - 2008/12/31
Y1 - 2008/12/31
N2 - In Israel about 1090 inseminations are performed each day, in 412 farms at 283 sites. This paper presents tools, developed to plan agent work schedules which are implemented in the artificial insemination services in Israel. The tools developed are: (1) a multi-variable regression model to predict the duration of cows' treatment; (2) an optimization model of farm allocation and routes determination, and (3) solution schemes for this model. The solution consists of four steps: (1) heuristic algorithms for initial allocation of customers to agents; (2) improvement of the total traveling time by neighbor search; (3) improving average daily working time by neighbor search and (4) applying a genetic algorithm to determine the desired route for each worker. The result of work planning and an examination of the trade-off between work balancing and the total traveling time are presented, too.
AB - In Israel about 1090 inseminations are performed each day, in 412 farms at 283 sites. This paper presents tools, developed to plan agent work schedules which are implemented in the artificial insemination services in Israel. The tools developed are: (1) a multi-variable regression model to predict the duration of cows' treatment; (2) an optimization model of farm allocation and routes determination, and (3) solution schemes for this model. The solution consists of four steps: (1) heuristic algorithms for initial allocation of customers to agents; (2) improvement of the total traveling time by neighbor search; (3) improving average daily working time by neighbor search and (4) applying a genetic algorithm to determine the desired route for each worker. The result of work planning and an examination of the trade-off between work balancing and the total traveling time are presented, too.
KW - Artificial insemination
KW - Cows
KW - Modeling hybrid systems (event and time driven)
KW - Production-line balancing
KW - Traveling salesman problem
KW - Vehicle routing problem
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84855383951&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.17660/ActaHortic.2008.802.38
DO - 10.17660/ActaHortic.2008.802.38
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84855383951
SN - 9789066056411
T3 - Acta Horticulturae
SP - 293
EP - 300
BT - IV International Symposium on Applications of Modelling as an Innovative Technology in the Agri-Food-Chain
PB - International Society for Horticultural Science
ER -