A Parameter-Free Hyperheuristic for Scheduling a Sales Summit

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the d2 elopment of a mechanism for automatically setting the parameters as well as refining the choice function. Tod o so we apply the hyperheuristic to a real-world personnel sched5qUW problem, that of schedUEI: a sales summit. The remaind5 of the paper is structured as follows. We firstd escribe and formulate the sales summit schedI/Eq problem. This is followed by thed25H iption of our parameter-free hyperheuristic approach in section 3. Section 4 is d2 oted to experimental resultsand section 5concludx the paper. 2 The Sales Summit Scheduling Problem The sales summit sched uling problem is that of a commercial company that organises sales summits which involve two groups of company representatives: suppliers, who want to sell prodfifi/ or services, delegates who are representatives of companies that are potentially interested in purchasing the prod:qH and services. Suppliers pay a registration fee to have a stand at the sales summit and provid a list of thed2qIUUfi2 that they would like to meet. A meeting (between oned elegate and one supplier) is classified as Priority or Non-Priority d2 endEE on how strongly the supplier would like to meet thed elegate. Delegates pay no fee but instead cost money to the commercial company who pays for their travelling and hotel expenses. Besid2 meetings, seminars are organised whered elegates may meet otherd elegates. Eachd elegate providE a list of the seminars that he/she would like to attend and (if he/she is invited to the summit) is guaranteed attend nce to all seminars. In this instance of the sales summit schedI//H problem there are 4 meeting timeslots available for both seminars and meetings, where each seminar lasts three times as long as a supplier/d55W ate meeting. There are 43 suppliers, 99 ...

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