A hybrid algorithm for a class of vehicle routing problems

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2519-2531

  Subramanian, Anand ^a   Uchoa, Eduardo ^b   Ochi, Luiz Satoru ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARAÍBA   (Brazil)

^b FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Iterated Local Search; Matheuristic; Set Partitioning; Vehicle Routing Problems

Indexed keywords

ITERATED LOCAL SEARCH; MATHEURISTIC; META-HEURISTIC APPROACH; MIXED INTEGER PROGRAMMING (MIP); PICKUP AND DELIVERY; SET PARTITIONING; SIMULTANEOUS PICKUP AND DELIVERIES; VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEMS;

NETWORK ROUTING; ROUTING ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84879055762     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2013.01.013     Document Type: Article

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