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Empirical Analysis of Two Different Metaheuristics for Real-World Vehicle Routing Problems

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Hybrid Metaheuristics (HM 2007)

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We present two hybrid Metaheuristics, a hybrid Iterated Local Search and a hybrid Simulated Annealing, for solving real-world extensions of the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows. Both hybrid Metaheuristics are based on the same neighborhood generating operators and local search procedures. The initial solutions are obtained by the Coefficient Weighted Distance Time Heuristics with automated parameter tuning. The strategies are compared in an empirical study on four real-world problems. A performance measure is used that also considers multiple restarts of the algorithms.

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  1. Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, University of Zagreb, Vukelićeva 4, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia

    Tonc̆i Carić, Juraj Fosin, Ante Galić & Hrvoje Gold

  2. University of Dortmund, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany

    Andreas Reinholz

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Thomas Bartz-Beielstein María José Blesa Aguilera Christian Blum Boris Naujoks Andrea Roli Günter Rudolph Michael Sampels

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Carić, T., Fosin, J., Galić, A., Gold, H., Reinholz, A. (2007). Empirical Analysis of Two Different Metaheuristics for Real-World Vehicle Routing Problems. In: Bartz-Beielstein, T., et al. Hybrid Metaheuristics. HM 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4771. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75514-2_3

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