Benchmarks

Critical Node Problems

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Maximum Diversity Problem

These sets of benchmark instances have been used in our research on Maximum Diversity Problem. All instances are in Ampl data format. A simple Integer Linear Programming model written in Ampl language is also available: mdp.mod.
This data set has been used in the 3 papers: [ DOI 1 ], [ DOI 2 ], [ DOI 3 ].

  1. MDP_Glover_Instances.tar.bz2: 20 instances by Glover et al.
  2. MDP_Andrade_Instances.tar.bz2: 40 instances by Andrade et al.
  3. MDP_Silva_Instances.tar.bz2: 20 instances by Silva et al.
  4. MDP_Type1a_Instances.tar.bz2: 20 instances by Marti and Duarte
  5. MDP_Type1b_Instances.tar.bz2: 20 instances by Marti and Duarte
  6. MDP_Type1c_Instances.tar.bz2: 20 instances by Marti and Duarte
  7. MDP_Type2_Instances.tar.bz2: 20 instances by Marti and Duarte

SONET Network Design problem

These sets of benchmark instances are used during our numerical experiments for testing our metaheuristic algorithms for the solution of two SONET Network Design problems.
This data set has been used in the 2 papers: [ DOI 1 ], [ DOI 2 ].

  1. GLO.tar.gz: Goldschmidt, Laugier and Olinick file of 160 instances
  2. AD.tar.gz: Aringhieri and Dell'Amico file of 230 instances
  3. Testset.arj: Lee, Sherali, Han and Kim file of 40 instances (plus lp files)

District Heating problem

These data sets are kindly provided by Claudio Artioli of Agea, Ferrara. They concern the daily operation of the selected 7 days in 1997. They are provided as OPL Studio input file. This data set has been used in "Optimal Operations Management and Network Planning of a District Heating System with a Combined Heat and Power Plant" appeared to "Annals of Operations Research" [ DOI ].

  1. districtheating.tar.gz

E1LCRP

The first data set (B1) is kindly provided by Gesenu S.p.A. The data sets B2 and B3 are randomly generated extending the number of possible requests in B1 (see here for further details). This data set has been used in "A Special Vehicle Routing Problem Arising in the Optimization of Waste Disposal: A Real Case" to appear on "Transportation Science" [ DOI ].

  1. B1.zip
  2. B2.zip
  3. B3.zip

MCEE

This data set has been used in the paper "Composing Medical Crews with Equity and Efficiency" appeared to CEJOR [ DOI ].

  1. DatasetsMCEE.tar.bz2

Workload balance in Operating Room Planning and Scheduling

This data set has been used in the paper "Combining workload balance and patient priority maximisation in operating room planning through hierarchical multi-objective optimisation" appeared to EJOR [ DOI ]. The zip file contains: (i) the 80 realistic instances, (ii) a spreadsheet with the raw data used for the Tables in the Appendix, and (iii) the Mosel version of the models H1 and H2.

  1. 2021-EJOR-www-repository.zip

 

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