Title
Restricted Neighborhood Search for Large Scale Vehicle Routing Problems
Abstract
Vehicle routing problems (VRPs) are classical NP-hard problems. Those large scale and complex VRPs are even challenging. In this paper, we provide a general description of VRPs with heterogeneous constraints. For solving such type of VRPs in considerable solution quality and reasonable time, neighborhood search is a preferred choice. However, during the neighborhood search process, we may encounter a problem that the size of the neighboring solutions is still quite large, which consumes a great deal of computational resources. To tackle this problem, we propose a restricted neighborhood search method, which can ignore those non-promising neighboring solutions in a heuristic manner. Experiments on a real-world dataset show that our method can significantly accelerate the neighborhood search process, while the quality of the resultant solution is not impaired.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ICNSC.2019.8743332
2019 IEEE 16th International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC)
Keywords
Field
DocType
vehicle routing,large scale optimization,restricted neighborhood search,logistics
Vehicle routing problem,Heuristic,Mathematical optimization,Computer science,Control engineering,Neighborhood search
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1810-7869
978-1-7281-0085-2
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
6
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hong Liu100.34
Zizhen Zhang210017.27
Xiwang Guo3342.67