Artificial bee colony algorithm for cross dock scheduling problem

Cross dock scheduling problem is a kind of highly complex optimization problem, and it is the critical issue for the efficiency of the cross docking logistics. Summarized and simplified by the practical problems, the mathematical model of cross dock scheduling problem with multi-dock doors is founded. Artificial bee colony algorithm (ABC) is presented to solve the problem. According to the characteristic of the problem and the ABC, the two-stage largest order value (LOV) based on random key encoding method is designed. To compare and analyze the performance of our proposed algorithms, 3 types with 6 scenes of instance are designed. Simulation results show that the proposed ABC algorithm is efficiency for the cross dock scheduling problem.