An exact algorithm and a metaheuristic for the generalized vehicle routing problem with flexible fleet size.
Minh Hoàng HàNathalie BostelAndré LangevinLouis-Martin RousseauPublished in: Comput. Oper. Res. (2014)
Keyphrases
- vehicle routing problem
- metaheuristic
- tabu search
- ant colony optimization
- simulated annealing
- combinatorial optimization problems
- routing problem
- hybrid metaheuristic
- combinatorial optimization
- iterated local search
- optimal solution
- vehicle routing problem with time windows
- scatter search
- vehicle routing
- benchmark instances
- test instances
- optimization problems
- memetic algorithm
- benchmark problems
- search space
- solution space
- travel time
- search methods
- genetic algorithm
- traveling salesman problem
- greedy randomized adaptive search procedure
- combinatorial problems
- path relinking
- particle swarm optimization
- variable neighborhood search
- nature inspired
- logistics distribution
- np hard
- test problems
- branch and bound algorithm
- hyper heuristics
- upper bound
- guided local search