An integrative cooperative search framework for multi-decision-attribute combinatorial optimization: Application to the MDPVRP

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 246, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 400-412

  Lahrichi, Nadia ^a,c   Crainic, Teodor Gabriel ^a,b   Gendreau, Michel ^a,c   Rei, Walter ^a,b   Crişan, Gloria Cerasela ^a,e   Vidal, Thibaut ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b Université du Québec à Montréal   (Canada)

^c ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^e Universitatea Vasile Alecsandri Din Bac u   (Romania)

Author keywords

Decision set decomposition; Integrative cooperative search; Meta heuristics; Multi attribute combinatorial optimization; Multi depot periodic vehicle routing

Indexed keywords

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; VEHICLE ROUTING;

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; COOPERATIVE SEARCH; META HEURISTICS; MULTI DEPOTS; MULTI-ATTRIBUTES; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PERIODIC VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEM; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS;

HEURISTIC METHODS;

EID: 84930866614     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2015.05.007     Document Type: Article

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