[PDF] Top 20 Application of Harmony Search to Vehicle Routing

... algorithm, harmony search, imitating music improvisation process, is introduced and applied to vehicle routing problem, then compared with one of the popular evolutionary ... See full document

... value of the tabu list size tls called Threshold. The variation of this parameter improves the exploration of the search space by varying the compromise between intensification and ...us ... See full document

... The vehicle routing problem with backhauls and soft time windows contains two disjoint sets of customers: those that receive goods from the depot, who are called linehauls, and those that send goods ... See full document

... initiation of each search block the customer move frequency data – used by the Tabu Search – are adjusted to 100 as a starting ...depth-first search also the customer move frequency ... See full document

... The Vehicle Routing Problem 177 The contribution of this work is then to define a powerful yet simple cMA capable of competing with the best known approaches for solving CVRP in terms ... See full document

... the vehicle routing problem with time windows and multiple deliverymen, a variant of the vehicle routing problem which includes the decision of the crew size of each ... See full document

... developed to detect distributed predicates can be online or ...execution of the application, and hence it may change the behavior of the application in unexpected ...advantage of ... See full document

... life application domains. One of the most common problems is the attempt to optimize a performance index for a complex procedure that is captured through a simulation model, giving rise to ... See full document

... The Vehicle Routing Problem is a well studied combinatorial optimization problem with many real practical ...variant of VRP that we considered is the VRPs with hard time ...capable of solving ... See full document

... behavior of ants foraging for food. During the search for food from their nest to the food source, it was found that a moving ant will lay a chemical substance called pheromone on the ...form ... See full document

... strand of the relevant literature consists of the routing problems that consider the limited driving range of vehicles and the possibility of refueling en ...allowed to recharge ... See full document

... the application of DM to improve the results of evolutionary algorithms is still ...corresponds to an intensification strategy, since it tries to discover good features in the ... See full document

... number of facilities among can- didate sites and establishing delivery routes to a set of users in such a way that the total system cost is ...case of these problems is Hamilto- nian p-Median ... See full document

... a vehicle routing with backup provisioning approach is proposed for sustainable urban mobility with efficient use of ...solutions to be obtained more quickly. The vehicle routing ... See full document

... the application of techniques for solving assignment problem (AP) and vehicle problem with time window (VRPTW) occurred in cash distribution of bank in Bangkok, ...review of the ... See full document

... advantages of adopting consistent routes, few papers have addressed the conVRP and most approaches resort to approximation ...(2005) to solve very large VRPs. A real-world data set is used to ... See full document

... OR vehicle positioning, global positioning system (GPS) is the most widespread used technology ...reliability. To overcome the signal blockage of GPS, one common solution is that GPS is integrated ... See full document

... goal of the MDVRPB is to determine the routes to be performed from the selected depots to the customers by a fleet of homogeneous vehicles in order to satisfy the demand ... See full document

... typical vehicle routing ...sequence of arcs at the lowest cost was chosen by exhaustive enumeration using the branch-and-bound algorithm of integer linear programming, which is also available ... See full document

... A dynamic programming approach is also investigated, using state space relaxation and a penalty method to improve the bound.. comparative study of the computational [r] ... See full document