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IPPS
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
A Parallel Hybrid Evolutionary Metaheuristic for the Period Vehicle Routing Problem
Abstract. This paper presents a Parallel Hybrid Evolutionary Metaheuristic for the Period Vehicle Routing Problem PVRP. The PRVP generalizes the classical Vehicle Routing Problem b...
Dalessandro Soares Vianna, Luiz Satoru Ochi, L&uac...
HAIS
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
A Vehicle Routing Problem Solved by Agents
The main purpose of this study is to find out a good solution to the vehicle routing problem considering heterogeneous vehicles. This problem tries to solve the generation of paths...
Maria Belén Vaquerizo García
GECCO
2009
Springer
125views Optimization» more  GECCO 2009»
14 years 4 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
172views Optimization» more  GECCO 2009»
14 years 4 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
LION
2010
Springer
307views Optimization» more  LION 2010»
14 years 4 months ago
A Column Generation Heuristic for the General Vehicle Routing Problem
This paper presents a column generation heuristic for the general vehicle routing problem (GVRP), a combined load acceptance and rich vehicle routing problem incorporating various ...
Asvin Goel
PDP
2002
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Parallel Simulated Annealing for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows
A parallel simulated annealing algorithm to solve the vehicle routing problem with time windows is presented. The objective is to find the best possible solutions to some wellkno...
Zbigniew J. Czech, Piotr Czarnas
OR
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Open Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Deadlines: Solution Methods and an Application
In the open route version of the well-known vehicle routing problem, vehicles are not required to return to the depot; or if they are required, then they return by traveling the sa...
Zeynep Özyurt, Deniz Aksen, Necati Aras
GECCO
2005
Springer
139views Optimization» more  GECCO 2005»
14 years 5 months ago
A genetic algorithm for unmanned aerial vehicle routing
Genetic Algorithms (GAs) can efficiently produce high quality results for hard combinatorial real world problems such as the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP). Genetic Vehicle Represe...
Matthew A. Russell, Gary B. Lamont
CIMCA
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
A GRASP with Adaptive Memory for a Period Vehicle Routing Problem
We present some proposals to approximately solve a period vehicle routing problem used to model the extraction of oil from a set of onshore oil wells in Brazil. This problem diffe...
Luciana B. Goncalves, Luiz Satoru Ochi, Simone L. ...
WEA
2007
Springer
138views Algorithms» more  WEA 2007»
14 years 5 months ago
A Robust Branch-Cut-and-Price Algorithm for the Heterogeneous Fleet Vehicle Routing Problem
This paper presents a robust branch-cut-and-price algorithm for the Heterogeneous Fleet Vehicle Routing Problem (HFVRP), vehicles may have distinct capacities and costs. The colum...
Artur Alves Pessoa, Marcus Poggi de Aragão,...