A hybrid genetic algorithm with adaptive diversity management for a large class of vehicle routing problems with time-windows

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 475-489

  Vidal, Thibaut ^a,b   Crainic, Teodor Gabriel ^c   Gendreau, Michel ^d   Prins, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE TROYES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d INTERUNIVERSITY RESEARCH CENTRE ON ENTERPRISE NETWORKS   (Canada)

Author keywords

Decomposition; Diversity management; Hybrid genetic algorithm; Neighbourhood search; Time windows; Vehicle routing problems

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE DIVERSITY; CONSTANT TIME; DIVERSITY CONTROL; HYBRID GENETIC; HYBRID GENETIC ALGORITHMS; NEIGHBOURHOOD; NEIGHBOURHOOD SEARCH; NODE EXCHANGE; STATE-OF-THE-ART APPROACH; STRUCTURAL PROBLEMS; TEMPORAL DIMENSIONS; TIME WINDOWS; VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEM WITH TIME WINDOWS; VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEMS;

DECOMPOSITION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; NETWORK ROUTING;

ROUTING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84866177726     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2012.07.018     Document Type: Article

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