Title of article :
Dynamic windowreductionforthemultipledepotvehicleschedulingproblemwith
time windows
Author/Authors :
Ahmed Hadjar، نويسنده , , FrançoisSoumisb، نويسنده ,
Issue Information :
ماهنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2009
Abstract :
We considerawidespreadbranch-and-priceapproachtosolvethemultipledepotvehiclescheduling
problem withtimewindows.Wedescribeadynamictimewindowreductiontechniquetospeedupthis
approach. Thetimewindowsaretransferredfromnodestoarcsinordertotakeadvantageofdualinfor-
mation andtotightenasmuchaspossiblethetimevariabledomains.Theperformanceoftheproposed
technique isevaluatedthroughcomputationalexperimentsonrandomlygeneratedinstancesinvolving
several depotsandupto900tasks.
Keywords :
Branch and Bound , vehicle scheduling , Time Windows , Column generation , Branch and price , Window reduction
Journal title :
Computers and Operations Research
Journal title :
Computers and Operations Research