Metaheuristics for Vehicle Routing Problems (Computer Engineering: Metaheuristics Set, 3) - Hardcover

Labadie, Nacima; Prins, Christian; Prodhon, Caroline

 
9781848218116: Metaheuristics for Vehicle Routing Problems (Computer Engineering: Metaheuristics Set, 3)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1848218117 ISBN 13: 9781848218116
Publisher: Wiley-ISTE, 2016

Synopsis

This book is dedicated to metaheuristics as applied to vehicle routing problems. Several implementations are given as illustrative examples, along with applications to several typical vehicle routing problems.

As a first step, a general presentation intends to make the reader more familiar with the related field of logistics and combinatorial optimization. This preamble is completed with a description of significant heuristic methods classically used to provide feasible solutions quickly, and local improvement moves widely used to search for enhanced solutions. The overview of these fundamentals allows appreciating the core of the work devoted to an analysis of metaheuristic methods for vehicle routing problems. Those methods are exposed according to their feature of working either on a sequence of single solutions, or on a set of solutions, or even by hybridizing metaheuristic approaches with others kind of methods.

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About the Author

Nacima Labadie is Associate Professor with accreditation to supervise research (HDR) at the Industrial Systems Optimization Laboratory of the Charles Delaunay Institute at the University of Technology of Troyes in France. Her research mainly focuses on arc routing and team orienteering problems.

Christian Prins is Full Professor at the Industrial Systems Optimization Laboratory of the Charles Delaunay Institute at the University of Technology of Troyes in France. His research focuses on the many variants of vehicle routing problems.

Caroline Prodhon is Associate Professor with accreditation to supervise research (HDR) at the Industrial Systems Optimization Laboratory of the Charles Delaunay Institute at the University of Technology of Troyes in France. Her research focuses on location-routing problems.

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Publisher
Wiley-ISTE
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1848218117
ISBN 13 
9781848218116
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
194