A hybrid genetic algorithm for multidepot and periodic vehicle routing problems

Operations Research

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 611-624

  Vidal, Thibaut ^a   Crainic, Teodor Gabriel ^b   Gendreau, Michel ^c   Lahrichi, Nadia ^c   Rei, Walter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c INTERUNIVERSITY RESEARCH CENTRE ON ENTERPRISE NETWORKS   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMIC FRAMEWORK; CAPACITATED VEHICLES; COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENT; EVOLUTIONARY SEARCH; HYBRID GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MANAGEMENT SCHEME; META HEURISTICS; METAHEURISTIC; PERIODIC VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEM; SOLUTION QUALITY; VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEMS;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 84864700477     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1120.1048     Document Type: Article

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