BRKGA algorithm for the Capacitated Arc Routing Problem

We propose a new algorithm for the Capacitated Arc Routing Problem (CARP). Our motivation to deal with this problem is related to its application in several real world scenarios such as street sweeping, urban waste collection and electric meter reading just to mention a few. Based on BRKGA metaheuri...

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Autores: Martinez, C., Loiseau, I., Resende, M.G.C., Rodriguez, S.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2011
País:Argentina
Institución:Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales
Repositorio:Biblioteca Digital (UBA-FCEN)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:paperaa:paper_15710661_v281_n_p69_Martinez
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_15710661_v281_n_p69_Martinez
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:BRKGA
CARP
metaheuristics
vehicle routing
Capacitated arc routing problem
Computational time
Local search
Meta heuristics
Metaheuristic
Meter readings
Objective function values
Random keys
Real-world scenario
Street sweeping
Urban wastes
Computer science
Vehicle routing
Algorithms
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Sumario:We propose a new algorithm for the Capacitated Arc Routing Problem (CARP). Our motivation to deal with this problem is related to its application in several real world scenarios such as street sweeping, urban waste collection and electric meter reading just to mention a few. Based on BRKGA metaheuristic, our algorithm introduces a new random key encoding for CARP, mutation to random keys strings, a restart phase to avoid stagnation and local search. The algorithm was tested with several well-known instances from the literature. The results obtained were competitive in terms of objective function value and required computational time. © 2011 Elsevier B.V.