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    • Operations Research
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Logistics Management

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    • Multi-agent systems are widely used for pickup and delivery tasks, requiring solutions that meet customer time windows despite potential disturbances.
    • Current evaluation methods using multiple simulations are time-consuming and indirect.
    • There is a need for explicit and efficient methods to assess the robustness of scheduling solutions.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop a robust optimization objective for agent scheduling problems, explicitly evaluating arrival times against time windows.
    • To model the problem as a triobjective optimization considering robustness, makespan, and cost.
    • To propose an advanced optimization algorithm for generating diverse and high-quality solutions.

    Main Methods:

    • Defined a robustness optimization objective based on agent arrival times and customer time windows for explicit evaluation.
    • Formulated the problem as a triobjective optimization problem incorporating robustness, makespan, and cost.
    • Proposed Matrix-Learning Particle Swarm Optimization (MLPSO) with matrix-based solution representation (adjacency and allocation matrices).
    • Developed a Matrix-Distance-based Learning (MDL) strategy for particle updates and Dual-Space Local Search (DSLS) for enhanced convergence and diversity.

    Main Results:

    • MLPSO effectively obtains diversified and high-quality solutions for pickup and delivery scheduling.
    • The matrix-based representation and MDL strategy facilitate the extraction of optimal task segments and agent allocations.
    • DSLS further improves the convergence and diversity of the obtained solutions.
    • Experimental results demonstrate MLPSO's superiority over state-of-the-art algorithms in solution quality and diversity across various scales.

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed robustness optimization objective provides an explicit and efficient evaluation method for scheduling solutions.
    • MLPSO is a powerful and effective algorithm for solving complex, multi-objective pickup and delivery problems.
    • The approach significantly advances the state-of-the-art in robust logistics scheduling and multi-agent task optimization.