Optimizing Product Line Designs: Efficient Methods and Comparisons
利用最新优化方法和计算机硬件，为大型产品线设计问题找到全局最优解，并以此基准测试模拟退火、分治等启发式方法的性能。
We take advantage of recent advances in optimization methods and computer hardware to identify globally optimal solutions of product line design problems that are too large for complete enumeration. We then use this guarantee of global optimality to benchmark the performance of more practical heuristic methods. We use two sources of data: (1) a conjoint study previously conducted for a real product line design problem, and (2) simulated problems of various sizes. For both data sources, several of the heuristic methods consistently find optimal or near-optimal solutions, including simulated annealing, divide-and-conquer, product-swapping, and genetic algorithms.