Solving vehicle routing problems using constraint programming and metaheuristics

Journal of Heuristics

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 501-523

  De Backer, Bruno ^a   Furnon, Vincent ^a   Shaw, Paul ^a   Kilby, Philip ^b   Prosser, Patrick ^c  

^a IBM   (United States)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; CONSTRAINT THEORY; HEURISTIC PROGRAMMING; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; TRANSPORTATION ROUTES;

CONSTRAINT PROGRAMMING; GUIDED LOCAL SEARCH; METAHEURISTICS; SOLOMON PROBLEMS; TABU SEARCH; VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEMS;

HEURISTIC METHODS;

EID: 0034272145     PISSN: 13811231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009621410177     Document Type: Article

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