[PDF] Top 20 Optimization Algorithms for the Inventory Routing Problem

... for the IRP, one must take into account some problem characteristics such as Time Horizon which can be finite or infinite; Products quantity as many suppliers will only produce one product and others may ... See full document

... in the area that is called as sensor fields or field of observation ...have the problem of charging when battery runs out. Therefore, the mechanism for efficient power utilization consumption ... See full document

... concerning the HHRP were published between 1998 and 2006 and addressed the problem in a national context and proposed decision support systems (DSS) that integrated GIS ...technology. The ... See full document

... an optimization model and the algo- rithm used to solve the respective optimization ...in the computational experiments. The first approach, called IGP-WO, is based on the ... See full document

... an optimization problem, some parameters must be determined ...are the population size, the bit length for each design variable, the crossover probability, and the mutation ... See full document

... In the mentioned works, where data acquisition technologies are combined with route collection optimization, routes have been defined through classical VRP models, which consider a predefined set of bins to ... See full document

... as the movement of products from the producers until the final ...on the stage of the Supply Chain where they are inserted ...bonding the various stages of the whole ... See full document

... Within the theme involving vehicular routing, the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is considered the foundation for the construction of a series of mathematical models, ... See full document

... a routing path needs to be changed, a technician has to visit the site and setup the connections ...manually. The add/drop channels are multiplexed/demultiplexed per direction by Arrayed ... See full document

... 13.1 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 ... See full document

... maritime inventory routing problem (MIRP) where a heterogeneous fleet of ships is transporting a single product between ...where the product is produced, and in the other ports ... See full document

... to the problem, we can use the route improvement strategies in the ...involves the inclusion of a local exchange procedure to act as an improvement heuristic within the routes ... See full document

... In the last decade, the federal government has been encouraging the nucleation of rural schools to offer better structured schools to the rural ...to the rural families but with ... See full document

... with the ability to exchange data. Today, computer networks are the core of modern ...communication. Routing problem is one of the important research issues in communication networks ... See full document

... ship routing and inventory management problem including several characteristics from the salmon farming ...maritime inventory routing problems described in the literature, ... See full document

... from the classical methods in that they combined the stochastic and deterministic ...global optimization, not only for local extremes. The big advantage of met heuristics is that they are ... See full document

... Location-Routing Problem (LRP) is an NP-hard problem that simultaneously takes into consideration location, allocation, and vehicle routing decisions to design an optimal distribution ...with ... See full document

... of the most important extensions of the CVRP is the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Window (VRPTW) which is each customer must be served within a specific time ...window. The ... See full document

... for routing in wireless sensor networks (WSN). The surveys presented in [ 24 – 26 ] do not focus on specific characteristics, providing a broader overview of the present ...As the field of ... See full document

... heuristic/metaheuristic algorithms, such as Tabu search, ant colony, GRASP, and specialized heuristic depending on particular characteristic of the ...On the other hand, the liter- ature on ... See full document