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COR
2006
13 years 5 months ago
2006
Home health care, i.e. visiting and nursing patients in their homes, is a growing sector in the medical service business. From a staff rostering point of view, the problem is to f...
IPPS
1998
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
1998
IEEE
Abstract. Nowadays genetic algorithms stand as a trend to solve NPcomplete and NP-hard problems. In this paper, we present a new hybrid metaheuristic which uses Parallel Genetic Al...
IPPS
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 days ago
2007
IEEE
Abstract—In this paper the author presents three approaches to parallel Tabu Search, applied to several instances of the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (CV...
CONSTRAINTS
2000
13 years 5 months ago
2000
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 ...
AEI
2004
13 years 5 months ago
2004
This research applies the meta-heuristic method of ant colony optimization (ACO) to an established set of vehicle routing problems (VRP). The procedure simulates the decision-maki...