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A variable neighborhood search for solving the multi-vehicle covering tour problem. (English) Zbl 1362.90090
Jarboui, Bassem (ed.) et al., Selected short papers of the 3rd international conference on variable neighborhood search (VNS’14), Djerba, Tunisia, October 8–11, 2014. Amsterdam: Elsevier. Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics 47, 285-292, electronic only (2015).
Summary: In this article, we consider a transportation problem with different kinds of locations: $$V$$, $$T$$, and $$W$$. The set $$T \subset V$$ consists of vertices that must be visited through the use of potential locations in $$V$$ and $$W$$ consists of locations that must be covered. The problem consists in minimizing vehicle routes on a subset of $$V$$ including $$T$$. We develop a variable neighborhood search heuristic based on a variable neighborhood descent in which a set of locations must be visited, whereas another subset must be close enough to the planned routes. We tested and compared our algorithm on datasets based on TSP Library instances.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 1310.68013].

##### MSC:
 90B06 Transportation, logistics and supply chain management 90C27 Combinatorial optimization 90C59 Approximation methods and heuristics in mathematical programming
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