A metaheuristic for the vehicle-routeing problem with soft time windows.
Wen-Chyuan ChiangRobert A. RussellPublished in: J. Oper. Res. Soc. (2004)
Keyphrases
- metaheuristic
- vehicle routing problem
- tabu search
- ant colony optimization
- simulated annealing
- optimization problems
- scatter search
- vehicle routing
- combinatorial optimization
- search space
- optimal solution
- genetic algorithm
- traveling salesman problem
- hybrid metaheuristic
- benchmark instances
- vehicle routing problem with time windows
- path relinking
- routing problem
- iterated local search
- solution space
- evolutionary algorithm
- metaheuristic algorithms
- travel time
- harmony search
- mathematical programming
- lower bound
- greedy randomized adaptive search procedure
- particle swarm optimization
- set of benchmark instances
- variable neighborhood search
- multi start
- neural network
- nature inspired
- objective function
- feasible solution
- active learning