The corridor method: A dynamic programming inspired metaheuristic

Abstract

This paper presents a dynamic programming inspired metaheuristic called Corridor Method. It can be classified as a method-based iterated local search in that it deploys method-based neighborhoods. By this we mean that the search for a new candidate solution is carried out by a fully-fledged optimization method and generates a global optimal solution over the neighborhood. The neighborhoods are thus constructed to be suitable domains for the fully-fledged optimization method used. Typically, these neighborhoods are obtained by the imposition of exogenous constraints on the decision space of the target problem and therefore must be compatible with the optimization method used to search these n..