An ant-based optimization approach for inventory routing

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing

Volumn 227, Issue , 2013, Pages 107-121

  Tatsis, Vasileios A ^a   Parsopoulos, Konstantinos E ^a   Skouri, Konstantina ^a   Konstantaras, Ioannis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FLEET OPERATIONS; INVENTORY CONTROL; SUPPLY CHAINS;

FINITE PLANNING HORIZON; INVENTORY MANAGEMENT; INVENTORY ROUTING PROBLEMS; OPERATION MANAGEMENT; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION APPROACH; UNSATISFIED DEMAND; VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEMS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 84882995150     PISSN: 21945357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-01128-8_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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