Variable neighborhood search for the inventory routing and scheduling problem in a supply chain

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 4149-4159

  Liu, Shu Chu ^a   Chen, An Zuo ^a  

^a NATIONAL PINGTUNG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Integrated model; Inventory routing and scheduling problem (IRSP); Metaheuristic; NP hard; Supply chain; Variable neighborhood search (VNS)

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED MODELS; INVENTORY ROUTING; METAHEURISTIC; NP-HARD; VARIABLE NEIGHBORHOOD SEARCH;

HEURISTIC METHODS; POLYNOMIALS; SUPPLY CHAINS;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 82255175598     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.09.120     Document Type: Article

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