A local search metaheuristic algorithm for the vehicle routing problem with simultaneous pick-ups and deliveries.
Emmanouil E. ZachariadisChris T. KiranoudisPublished in: Expert Syst. Appl. (2011)
Keyphrases
- metaheuristic
- simulated annealing
- optimal solution
- combinatorial optimization
- search space
- ant colony optimization
- tabu search
- vehicle routing problem
- iterated local search
- explore the search space
- vehicle routing problem with simultaneous
- guided local search
- initial solution
- optimization algorithm
- hill climbing
- harmony search
- search algorithm
- particle swarm optimization
- artificial ants
- linear programming
- dynamic programming
- objective function
- aco algorithm
- genetic algorithm
- multi start
- nature inspired
- optimization problems
- np hard
- benchmark instances
- global search
- scatter search
- path relinking
- solution quality
- evolutionary search
- benchmark problems
- knapsack problem
- traveling salesman problem
- variable neighbourhood search
- cost function
- neural network