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.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

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

in Bibtex Style

@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