Coupling ant colony optimization and discrete-event simulation to solve a stochastic location-routing problem

Proceedings of the 2013 Winter Simulation Conference - Simulation: Making Decisions in a Complex World, WSC 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 3352-3362

  Herazo Padilla, Nilson ^a,b   Montoya Torres, Jairo R ^a   Munoz Villamizar, Andres ^a   Isaza, Santiago Nieto ^b   Polo, Luis Ramirez ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA SABANA   (Colombia)

^b Fundación Centro de Investigación en Modelación Empresarial Del Caribe FCIMEC   (Colombia)

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EID: 84894205084     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2013.6721699     Document Type: Conference Paper

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