Abstract:
Recently, fourth-party logistics (4PL) is receiving considerable attention in the manufacturing and retail industries. However, due to the complexity, the research of rou...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
Recently, fourth-party logistics (4PL) is receiving considerable attention in the manufacturing and retail industries. However, due to the complexity, the research of routing problem in 4PL is in an initial stage. The existing study does not consider the complicated problem with node-edge property. This paper studies the node-to-node routing problem in 4PL. A mathematical model is set up based on nonlinear integer programming and multigraph. With respect to the problempsilas characteristics a hybrid immune algorithm is designed. The simulation shows that the hybrid immune algorithm is effective for solving the problem and provides an efficient method for making decision on routing in 4PL.
Published in: 2008 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence)
Date of Conference: 01-06 June 2008
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 23 September 2008
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