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An Efficient Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithm for a Practical Dynamic Pickup and Delivery Problem

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Intelligent Computing Theories and Application (ICIC 2022)

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Recently, practical dynamic pickup and delivery problem (DPDP) has become a challenging problem in manufacturing enterprises, due to the uncertainties of customers’ requirements and production processes. This paper proposes a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm based on decomposition with four efficient local search strategies, called MOEA/D-ES, which can well solve a practical DPDP with constraints like dock, time windows, capacity and last-in-first-out loading. This method decomposes the problem under consideration into many subproblems. The experimental results on 40 real-world logistics problem instances, offered by Huawei in the competition at ICAPS 2021, validate the high efficiency and effectiveness of our proposed method.

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    Junchuang Cai, Qingling Zhu, Qiuzhen Lin, Jianqiang Li, Jianyong Chen & Zhong Ming

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Cai, J., Zhu, Q., Lin, Q., Li, J., Chen, J., Ming, Z. (2022). An Efficient Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithm for a Practical Dynamic Pickup and Delivery Problem. In: Huang, DS., Jo, KH., Jing, J., Premaratne, P., Bevilacqua, V., Hussain, A. (eds) Intelligent Computing Theories and Application. ICIC 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13393. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13870-6_3

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