OR-Library

J E Beasley

OR-Library is a collection of test data sets for a variety of OR problems.

A full list of the test data sets available in OR-Library can be found here.


Set partitioning

There are 60 data files.
55 of these data files are the ones solved in "Constraint handing 
in genetic algorithms: the set partitioning problem" 
by P.C. Chu and J.E. Beasley, Journal of Heuristics, 
vol. 4, 1998, 323-357.
These data files are:
   sppnw01, sppnw02, ..., sppnw43
   sppaa01, sppaa02, ..., sppaa06
   sppus01, sppus02, ..., sppus04
   sppkl01, sppkl02
The format of these data files is:
   number of rows, number of columns (n)
   for each column j (j=1,...,n) in turn:
      column cost, number of rows covered by j, list of the rows covered by j
These data files have been contributed by K.L. Hoffman and D. Levine
A subset of these problems have been solved in:
K.L.Hoffman and M.Padberg, "Solving airline crew scheduling 
problems by branch-and-cut", Management Science, vol. 39, no. 6,
pp657-682, June 1993. A perl script to convert these files to MPS format
contributed by David Levine can be found here 
The remaining 5 data files are the files used in:
A lagrangean relaxation based algorithm for solving set partitioning problems
by Krieken, M.G.C. van; Fleuren, H.A.; Peeters, M.J.P. (2004), see
http://greywww.kub.nl:2080/greyfiles/center/2004/44.html
These files are:
   bills_snowflake
   delta
   exotic_fives
   heart
   meteor
These files have the same data format as described above and
have been contributed by Maaike van Krieken (M.G.C.vanKrieken@uvt.nl)
The largest file is sppus01 of size 68Mb (approximately)
The entire set of files is of size 124Mb (approximately).

Click here to access these files

OTHER SOURCES

Other test problems are available here