[PDF] Top 20 A Clustering Approach for Vehicle Routing Problems with Hard Time Windows

... of problems: a class of clustered problems whose requests form geographical clusters; a class of random problems, whose requests are randomly scattered; a class that combines both clustered and ... See full document

... This study presents a genetic algorithm that uses an optimized crossover operator to solve the vehicle routing problem with time windows. The proposed algorithm has been tested against ... See full document

... open vehicle routing problem (OVRP), attracted the attention of practitioners and ...real-world problems, like the planning of train services or bus routes (see [10]), or when industries do not own a ... See full document

... This approach significantly differs from current applications that combine GAs and DM because, until now, most of the efforts deal with the development of GAs as optimization methods to solve DM ... See full document

... network clustering is to divide a network into different clusters based on certain ...planning vehicle routes from these depots to geographically scattered customers ...interdependent problems have ... See full document

... test problems, SA and GA are ...compared with each other and LINGO ...computational time is evaluated in some randomly generated ...compared with the optimal solutions obtained from LINGO ... See full document

... dealt with VRPCD is the assumption that vehicles must stop at the CD after the requests are collected from ...the vehicle collects and delivers the same ...same time, frees space and resources at the ... See full document

... along with the frequency it has appeared in the solutions already ana- ...first time an approach combining a heuristic and a data mining algorithm is proposed for a vehicle routing ... See full document

... VRPTW with time-dependent travel-times, where the travel-times between two locations depend on both the distance and the time of the ...heuristic approach based on the Tabu Search and ... See full document

... Many computation trials were made to check this model on the Solomon problems, although trials were possible only on those problem instances where the initial number of routes were more then the ever found best ... See full document

... relationship with the customer and operate on a tight delivery lead time have the most benefits to withdraw from using a delivery system with consistent ...customers, with pharmaceutical and ... See full document

... for problems, since solving it is equiv- alent to solving multiple TSP problems at once ...including time windows re- strictions –VRPTW– (customers must be supplied following a certain ... See full document

... analogy with music improvisation process where musicians in an ensemble continue to polish their pitches in order to obtain better harmony [9] ...optimization problems such as truss structure design, pipe ... See full document

... and with LEACH protocol in under the continuous delivery ...considered with small (100x100) ...the time of the first node failure is a meaningful measurement in the sense that a single node failure ... See full document

... operating time of facilities is taken into ...in time- dependent road networks has been studied in previous ...long time for these POIs to open from the moment they are ...the time for one to ... See full document

... individuals with the set of ...associated with four different aggregation criteria: two empirical ― single link and com- plete link ― and two probabilistic criteria ― Aggregation Validity Link (AVL) and ... See full document

... 847 by the real life 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 trail. The ... See full document

... geograficamente dispersas, encontrar o melhor conjunto de rotas para atender todos os. clientes[r] ... See full document

... In the present era of globalization and competitive market, cellular manufacturing has become a vital tool for meeting the challenges of improving productivity, which is the way to sustain growth. Getting best results of ... See full document

... of routing protocols based clusters, whose principle is very simple: divide the whole network into several parts, each party will elect a central node, responsible for coordination of routing information ... See full document