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A parallel multi-objective scatter search for optimising incentive contract design in projects
Kerkhove, L-P Vanhoucke, M
Kerkhove, L-P
Vanhoucke, M
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2017-09
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European Journal of Operational Research
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261
Publication Issue
3
Publication Begin page
1066
Publication End page
1084
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Abstract
We present a novel optimisation approach for incentive contract design within a project setting. the structure of the remuneration is one of the key challenges faced by the project owner when (s)he decides to hire a contractor. The proposed technique builds on the recently proposed contract design methodology by Kerkhove and Vanhoucke (Omega, 2015). Specifically, a novel multi-objective scatter search heuristic is proposed and implemented using parallelisation. Both single- and multi-population implementations of this heuristic are compared to the original full-factorial approach as well as commercial optimisation software. The results of the computational experiments indicate that the single-population parallel scatter search procedure significantly outperforms the other solution strategies in terms of both speed and solution quality.
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46 Information and Computing Sciences, 40 Engineering, 4602 Artificial Intelligence