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CONSTRAINTS
2000
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13 years 5 months ago
A Comparison of Traditional and Constraint-based Heuristic Methods on Vehicle Routing Problems with Side Constraints
The vehicle routing problem (VRP) is a variant of the familiar travelling salesperson problem (TSP). In the VRP we are to perform a number of visits, using a number of vehicles of ...
Philip Kilby, Patrick Prosser, Paul Shaw
CIMCA
2005
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Ant Colony System for Optimizing Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows
Research on the optimization of Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (VRPTW) is a significant investigation area of ant colony system (ACS). This paper proposes an enhanced AC...
Xuan Tan, Xuyao Luo, W. N. Chen, Jun Zhang
GECCO
2009
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Preserving population diversity for the multi-objective vehicle routing problem with time windows
The Vehicle Routing Problem’s main objective is to find the lowest-cost set of routes to deliver goods to customers, which have a service time window, using a fleet of identic...
Abel Garcia-Najera
ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Agents towards vehicle routing problems
A multi-agent VRP solver is presented in this paper. It utilizes the contract-net protocol based allocation and several improvement strategies. It provides the solution with the q...
Jirí Vokrínek, Antonín Komend...
JAL
2006
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13 years 6 months ago
Approximations for minimum and min-max vehicle routing problems
: We consider a variety of vehicle routing problems. The input to a problem consists of a graph G = (N, E) and edge lengths l(e) e E. Customers located at the vertices have to be ...
Esther M. Arkin, Refael Hassin, Asaf Levin