Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
428910 Information Processing Letters 2006 6 Pages PDF
Abstract

The Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) is a hard combinatorial problem with numerous industrial applications. Among the large number of extensions to the canonical VRP, we study the Capacitated VRP (CVRP), which is mainly characterized by using vehicles of the same capacity. A cellular Genetic Algorithm (cGA)—a kind of decentralized population based heuristic—is used for solving CVRP, improving several of the best existing results so far in the literature. Our study shows a high performance in terms of the quality of the solutions found and the number of function evaluations (effort).

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