Solving VRPTWs with constraint programming based column generation

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 130, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 199-216

  Rousseau, Louis Martin ^a   Gendreau, Michel ^a   Pesant, Gilles ^a   Focacci, Filippo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

Column generation; Constraint programming; Hybrid method; Optimization constraints; Vehicle routing with time windows

Indexed keywords

EID: 3142773421     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:ANOR.0000032576.73681.29     Document Type: Article

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