60 Artificial Fish Swarm
The purpose is to obtain an optimal match of the empty taxis and passengers predicted
according to the historical scheduling data.
The un-capacitated facility location problem (UFLP) is faced in [3] using AFSA. The
UFLP involves a set of customers with known demands and a set of alternative candidate
facility locations. If a candidate location is to be selected for opening a facility, a known
fixed setup cost will be incurred. Moreover, there is also a fixed known delivery cost
from each candidate facility location to each customer. The goal of UFLP is to connect
each customer to exactly one opened facility in the way that the sum of all associated
costs (setup and delivery) is minimized. It is assumed that the facilities hav ...