Hybrid Algorithm for Solving the Multi-compartment Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and Profit

Hadhami Kaabi, Khaled Jabeur

2015

Abstract

This paper presents a new variant of the well-known vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRPTW). More precisely, this paper addresses a multi-compartment vehicle routing problem with time windows and profit (MCVRPTW with profit). The aim of this problem is to serve a set of customers by using a set of vehicles with multiple compartments, under a minimum traveling cost. The vehicles, starting and ending at the depot, have a limited capacity and each compartment is dedicated to one product. A customer is served only within a given time windows and, when it is visited a profit is collected (i.e. a profit not low than a preset profit bound). To solve this problem, an hybrid approach combining the genetic algorithm (GA) and the iterated local search (ILS) is used.

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Kaabi H. and Jabeur K. (2015). Hybrid Algorithm for Solving the Multi-compartment Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and Profit . In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO, ISBN 978-989-758-122-9, pages 324-329. DOI: 10.5220/0005572503240329


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@conference{icinco15,
author={Hadhami Kaabi and Khaled Jabeur},
title={Hybrid Algorithm for Solving the Multi-compartment Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and Profit},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,},
year={2015},
pages={324-329},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005572503240329},
isbn={978-989-758-122-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,
TI - Hybrid Algorithm for Solving the Multi-compartment Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and Profit
SN - 978-989-758-122-9
AU - Kaabi H.
AU - Jabeur K.
PY - 2015
SP - 324
EP - 329
DO - 10.5220/0005572503240329