A parallel iterated tabu search heuristic for vehicle routing problems

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2033-2050

  Cordeau, Jean François ^a   Maischberger, Mirko ^b  

^a HEC MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Iterated local search; Multi depot; Parallel computing; Periodic; Site dependent; Tabu search; Time windows; Vehicle routing problem

Indexed keywords

ITERATED LOCAL SEARCH; MULTI-DEPOT; PERIODIC; SITE-DEPENDENT; TIME WINDOWS; VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEM;

HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; NETWORK ROUTING; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; ROUTING ALGORITHMS; VEHICLE ROUTING;

TABU SEARCH;

EID: 84855529861     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2011.09.021     Document Type: Article

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