Title
An Open-Source Discrete Event Simulator For Rich Vehicle Routing Problems
Abstract
Multi-constrained Vehicle Routing Problems (VRP) are gaining in interest. Due to technology advancement, especially the stochastic character of real world VRP's obtains more emphasis within the solution finding process. Besides the multi scenario approach, simulation-based optimization addresses the randomness, and is proposed as a solving method. In this paper, we present a short review of existing open-source Rich VRP (RVRP) models. We introduce a RVRP Simulation Model and its corresponding Discrete Event Simulator. It is used to evaluate routing solution candidates for metaheuristic-driven optimization frameworks. Our implementation is published under an open source license in a public repository. We demonstrate the integration of our RVRP Simulator with the general purpose metaheuristic optimization framework SEREIN and show the feasibility of our approach by applying it to well-known Capacitated VRP instances.
Year
Venue
Field
2016
2016 IEEE 19TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS (ITSC)
Vehicle routing problem,General purpose,XML,Unified Modeling Language,Load modeling,Simulation,Computer science,Metaheuristic optimization,Stochastic process,Randomness
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Thomas Mayer100.34
Tobias Uhlig255.20
Oliver Rose31710.43