Title
The tree representation for the pickup and delivery traveling salesman problem with LIFO loading
Abstract
The feasible solutions of the traveling salesman problem with pickup and delivery (TSPPD) are commonly represented by vertex lists. However, when the TSPPD is required to follow a policy that loading and unloading operations must be performed in a last-in-first-out (LIFO) manner, we show that its feasible solutions can be represented by trees. Consequently, we develop a novel variable neighborhood search (VNS) heuristic for the TSPPD with last-in-first-out loading (TSPPDL) involving several search operators based on the tree data structure. Extensive experiments suggest that our VNS heuristic is superior to the current best heuristics for the TSPPDL in terms of solution quality, while requiring no more computing time as the size of the problem increases.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1016/j.ejor.2011.02.008
European Journal of Operational Research
Keywords
Field
DocType
Traveling salesman,Pickup and delivery,Last-in-first-out loading,Tree data structure,Variable neighborhood search
Mathematical optimization,Heuristic,Tree (graph theory),Variable neighborhood search,Tree (data structure),Algorithm,FIFO and LIFO accounting,Travelling salesman problem,Heuristics,Tree structure,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
212
3
0377-2217
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.49
14
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yongquan Li1120.91
Andrew Lim293789.78
Wee-chong Oon311112.72
Hu Qin420116.49
Dejian Tu580.49