• DocumentCode
    3374250
  • Title

    A new GA approach for the vehicle routing problem

  • Author

    Chin, Ang Juay ; Kit, Ho Wee ; Lim, Andrew

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Comput., Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore
  • fYear
    1999
  • fDate
    1999
  • Firstpage
    307
  • Lastpage
    310
  • Abstract
    This paper focuses on the study of a hybrid of two search heuristics, tabu search (TS) and genetic algorithms (GA) in the vehicle routing problem with time-windows (VRPTW). TS is a local search technique that has been successfully applied to many NP-complete problems. On the other hand, a GA which is capable of searching multiple search areas in a search space is good for diversification. We investigate whether a hybrid of the two heuristics outperforms the individual heuristics
  • Keywords
    genetic algorithms; heuristic programming; search problems; vehicles; NP-complete problems; genetic algorithms; local search technique; multiple search areas; search heuristics; search space; tabu search; time-windows; vehicle routing problem; Biological cells; Clustering algorithms; Clustering methods; Costs; Genetic algorithms; NP-complete problem; Routing; Shape; Time factors; Vehicles;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Tools with Artificial Intelligence, 1999. Proceedings. 11th IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Chicago, IL
  • ISSN
    1082-3409
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7695-0456-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/TAI.1999.809805
  • Filename
    809805