The harmony search for the routing optimization in fourth party logistics with time windows

2009 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 962-967

  Bo, Guihua ^a,b   Huang, Min ^a,b   Ip, W H ^c   Wang, Xingwei ^a,b  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KEY LABORATORY OF INTEGRATED AUTOMATION OF PROCESS INDUSTRY   (China)

^c HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESTINATION NODES; FOURTH PARTY LOGISTICS; FOURTH PARTY LOGISTICS (4PL); HARMONY SEARCH; METAHEURISTIC; MINIMUM COST; NEAR-OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PATH OPTIMIZATIONS; POINT TO POINT; RETAIL INDUSTRY; ROUTING OPTIMIZATION; ROUTING PROBLEMS; TIME WINDOWS;

HEURISTIC METHODS; LOGISTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WINDOWS;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 70449761286     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2009.4983049     Document Type: Conference Paper

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