A meta-heuristic approach to car allocation problem to reduce transportation cost over a fixed number of routes.
Prasun DasSaddam HossainAbhijit GuptaPublished in: Int. J. Data Anal. Tech. Strateg. (2010)
Keyphrases
- fixed number
- metaheuristic
- simulated annealing
- ant colony optimization
- optimization problems
- tabu search
- scatter search
- iterated local search
- harmony search
- harmony search algorithm
- finite number
- optimal solution
- search space
- genetic algorithm
- combinatorial optimization
- solution space
- guided local search
- search procedures
- vehicle routing problem
- optimization method
- particle swarm optimization
- combinatorial problems
- hybrid algorithms
- cost function
- benchmark instances
- initial solution
- constraint programming
- identical parallel machines
- ant colony optimisation
- lower bound