An integrated local search method for inventory and routing decisions

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 10239-10248

  Zachariadis, Emmanouil E ^a   Tarantilis, Christos D ^b   Kiranoudis, Chris T ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Inventory; Metaheuristics; Routing; Stochastic optimization; Tabu Search

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMIC FRAMEWORKS; CONSTANT RATES; CUSTOMER DEMANDS; DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; INVENTORY; INVENTORY HOLDINGS; INVENTORY-ROUTING; LOCAL SEARCH METHODS; LOCAL SEARCH OPERATORS; METAHEURISTICS; PRODUCT DEMANDS; ROUTING; ROUTING DECISIONS; SOLUTION APPROACHES; STOCHASTIC OPTIMIZATION; TRANSPORTATION COSTS; TRANSPORTATION-LOGISTICS; VEHICLE FLEETS;

AUTOMOBILE PARTS AND EQUIPMENT; FLEET OPERATIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SUPPLY CHAINS; TRANSPORTATION ROUTES;

TABU SEARCH;

EID: 67349230840     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2009.01.069     Document Type: Article

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