GRASP/VND and multi-start evolutionary local search for the single truck and trailer routing problem with satellite depots

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 780-794

  Villegas, Juan G ^a,b,c   Prins, Christian ^a   Prodhon, Caroline ^a   Medaglia, Andres L ^b   Velasco, Nubia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE TROYES   (France)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Evolutionary local search (ELS); Greedy randomized adaptive search procedures (GRASP); Iterated local search (ILS); Multi depot vehicle routing problem (MDVRP); Truck and trailer routing problem (TTRP); Variable neighborhood descent (VND)

Indexed keywords

HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; LOCAL SEARCH (OPTIMIZATION); TRUCK TRAILERS; TRUCK TRANSPORTATION; TRUCKS; VEHICLE ROUTING; VEHICLES;

GREEDY RANDOMIZED ADAPTIVE SEARCH PROCEDURE; ITERATED LOCAL SEARCH; LOCAL SEARCH; MULTI-DEPOT VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEMS; TRUCK AND TRAILER ROUTING PROBLEMS; VARIABLE NEIGHBORHOOD DESCENTS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 78349268079     PISSN: 09521976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engappai.2010.01.013     Document Type: Article

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