Heuristic, Exact and Hybrid Approaches for Vehicle Routing Problems

  • Anand Subramanian UFF
  • Luiz Satoru Ochi UFF
  • Eduardo Uchoa UFF

Abstract


This is an extended abstract of the author’s Doctoral thesis supervised by Luiz Satoru Ochi and Eduardo Uchoa and defended on 05 March 2012 at the Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil. The thesis is written in English and is available online at http://www2.ic.uff.br/PosGraduacao/Teses/532.pdf.

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Published
2013-07-23
SUBRAMANIAN, Anand; OCHI, Luiz Satoru; UCHOA, Eduardo. Heuristic, Exact and Hybrid Approaches for Vehicle Routing Problems. In: THESIS AND DISSERTATION CONTEST (CTD), 26. , 2013, Maceió/AL. Anais [...]. Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação, 2013 . p. 83-88. ISSN 2763-8820.