The optimization of routing in fourth-party logistics with soft time windows using harmony search

Proceedings - 2010 6th International Conference on Natural Computation, ICNC 2010

Volumn 8, Issue , 2010, Pages 4344-4348

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

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Fourth party logistics; Harmony search; Routing problems; Soft time windows

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149356711     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICNC.2010.5583596     Document Type: Conference Paper

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