Title
An improved hybrid algorithm for solving the generalized vehicle routing problem
Abstract
The generalized vehicle routing problem (GVRP) is a natural extension of the classical vehicle routing problem (VRP). In GVRP, we are given a partition of the customers into groups (clusters) and a depot and we want to design a minimum length collection of routes for the fleet of vehicles, originating and terminating at the depot and visiting exactly one customer from each group, subject to capacity restrictions. The aim of this paper is to present an efficient hybrid heuristic algorithm obtained by combining a genetic algorithm (GA) with a local-global approach to the GVRP and a powerful local search procedure. The computational experiments on several benchmark instances show that our hybrid algorithm is competitive to all of the known heuristics published to date.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1016/j.neucom.2012.03.032
Neurocomputing
Keywords
Field
DocType
capacity restriction,improved hybrid algorithm,local-global approach,benchmark instance,hybrid algorithm,known heuristics,genetic algorithm,efficient hybrid heuristic algorithm,generalized vehicle,computational experiment,classical vehicle,genetic algorithms,local search
Mathematical optimization,Vehicle routing problem,Hybrid algorithm,Heuristic (computer science),Heuristics,Artificial intelligence,Local search (optimization),Partition (number theory),Machine learning,Mathematics,Genetic algorithm
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
109,
0925-2312
19
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.89
10
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Petric C. Pop1190.89
Oliviu Matei24311.15
Corina Pop Sitar3364.18