A computer-enabled solution procedure for food wholesalers' distribution decision in cities with a circular transportation infrastructure

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2201-2209

  Hu, Xiangpei ^a   Wang, Zheng ^a   Huang, Minfang ^a   Zeng, Amy Z ^b  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer applications; Food distribution; Heuristic search technique; Optimization; Vehicle routing problem

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; HEURISTIC PROGRAMMING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MODULAR ROBOTS; NETWORK ROUTING; OPTIMIZATION; ROUTING ALGORITHMS;

BEIJING; DISTRIBUTION PROBLEMS; FOOD DISTRIBUTION; HEURISTIC SEARCH ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC SEARCH TECHNIQUE; PAPER ADDRESSES; SOLUTION PROCEDURES; SOLUTION PROCESSES; TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURES; TRANSPORTATION NETWORKS; VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEM;

VEHICLE ROUTING;

EID: 57649183914     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2008.08.020     Document Type: Article

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