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15th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI'03)
Effective Heuristics to Solve Pickup and Delivery Problems with Time Windows
Sacramento, California, USA
November 03-November 05
ISBN: 0-7695-2038-3
Vincent Tam, University of Hong Kong
Lois C.Y. Tseng, University of Hong Kong
Pickup and delivery problem with time windows (PDP-TW) is a challenging scheduling problem for which each delivery is coupled with a pickup request. Metaheuristic search techniques like the tabu search have been used to solve PDP-TW. In this paper, we investigated a min-conflicts based micro-genetic algorithm combining some interesting construction heuristic, namely the Align-Fold or Boomerang, and repair heuristics including a new Swap operator and a modified billiard operator to effectively solve PDD-TW. Our results compared favorably against those of a tabu-embedded metaheuristic search on a set of modified Solomon?s test cases. More importantly, our proposed heuristics can easily be integrated into many search schemes for solving other complex scheduling problems.
Citation:
Vincent Tam, Lois C.Y. Tseng, "Effective Heuristics to Solve Pickup and Delivery Problems with Time Windows," ictai, pp.184, 15th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI'03), 2003
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