The Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (VRPTW) is an important problem in logistics. The problem is to serve a number of customers at minimum cost without violating the cus...
Column generation algorithms have been specially designed for solving mathematical programs with a huge number of variables. Unfortunately, this method suffers from slow convergen...
This article addresses an extension of the multi-depot vehicle routing problem in which vehicles may be replenished at intermediate depots along their route. It proposes a heurist...
The multi-vehicle covering tour problem is de"ned on a graph G"(<6=, E), where = is a set of vertices that must collectively be covered by up to m vehicles. The probl...
Mondher Hachicha, M. John Hodgson, Gilbert Laporte...
This paper presents operators searching large neighborhoods in order to solve the vehicle routing problem. They make use of the pruning and propagation techniques of constraint pr...
Louis-Martin Rousseau, Michel Gendreau, Gilles Pes...