Solving a vehicle routing problem with time windows by a decomposition technique and a genetic algorithm.
Chi-Bin ChengKeng-Pin WangPublished in: Expert Syst. Appl. (2009)
Keyphrases
- vehicle routing problem with time windows
- genetic algorithm
- waste collection
- set partitioning
- vehicle routing problem
- exact algorithms
- column generation
- benchmark problems
- integer programming
- multi depot
- routing problem
- metaheuristic
- evolutionary algorithm
- neural network
- evolutionary computation
- integer program
- hyper heuristics
- simulated annealing
- combinatorial optimization
- fitness function
- tabu search
- approximation algorithms
- genetic algorithm ga
- exact solution
- state space
- optimization problems