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COR
2004
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13 years 4 months ago
A tabu search heuristic for the vehicle routing problem with time windows and split deliveries
The routing of a fleet of vehicles to service a set of customers is important in the field of distribution. Vehicle Routing Problems (VRP) arise in many real-life applications wit...
Sin C. Ho, Dag Haugland
GECCO
2009
Springer
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13 years 9 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
GECCO
2009
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
Comparison of similarity measures for the multi-objective vehicle routing problem with time windows
The Vehicle Routing Problem can be seen as a fusion of two well known combinatorial problems, the Travelling Salesman Problem and Bin Packing Problem. It has several variants, the...
Abel Garcia-Najera, John A. Bullinaria
ICTAI
2003
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
A Diversity-Controlling Adaptive Genetic Algorithm for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows
This paper presents an adaptive genetic algorithm (GA) to solve the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (VRPTW) to near optimal solutions. The algorithm employs a unique dec...
Kenny Qili Zhu
ICNC
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows: A Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimization Approach
Vehicle routing problem (VRP) is a well-known combinatorial optimization and nonlinear programming problem seeking to service a number of customers with a fleet of vehicles. This ...
Xiaoxiang Liu, Weigang Jiang, Jianwen Xie