A metaheuristic for the min-max Windy Rural Postman Problem with K vehicles

[EN] In this paper we deal with the min¿max version of the windy rural postman problem with K vehicles. For this problem, in which the objective is to minimize the length of the longest tour in order to find a set of balanced tours for the vehicles, we present here a metaheuristic that produces very...

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Autores: Benavent, Enrique, Corberán, Angel, Sanchís Llopis, José María
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2010
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/100790
Acceso en línea:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/100790
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Rural postman problem
Windy rural postman problem
Metaheuristics
Multivehicles
MATEMATICA APLICADA
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Sumario:[EN] In this paper we deal with the min¿max version of the windy rural postman problem with K vehicles. For this problem, in which the objective is to minimize the length of the longest tour in order to find a set of balanced tours for the vehicles, we present here a metaheuristic that produces very good feasible solutions in reasonable computing times. It is based on the combination of a multi-start procedure with an Iterated Local Search. Extensive computational results on a large set of instances with up to 50 vertices, 184 edges and 5 vehicles are presented. The results are very good, the average gaps with respect to a known lower bound are less than 0.40% for instances with 2 or 3 vehicles and up to 1.60% when 4 or 5 vehicles are considered.