Column generation heuristic for a rich arc routing problem

OpenAccess Series in Informatics

Volumn 14, Issue , 2010, Pages 130-141

  Lannez, Sébastien ^a,b,c   Artigues, Christian ^b,c   Damay, Jean ^a   Gendreau, Michel ^d  

^a SNCF   (France)

^b LAAS CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arc routing; Column generation; Heuristic; Railtrack maintenance

Indexed keywords

ARC ROUTING; ARC ROUTING PROBLEMS; COLUMN GENERATION; GREEDY ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC; OPTIMISATION PROBLEMS; RAIL TRACK INSPECTION; SCHEDULING PROBLEM;

BENCHMARKING; NETWORK ROUTING; OPTIMIZATION; SCHEDULING;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84882990687     PISSN: 21906807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2010.130     Document Type: Conference Paper

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