The vehicle routing problem: latest advances and new challenges

The Vehicle Routing Problem has been an especially active and fertile area ofresearch. Over the past five to seven years, there have been numerous technological advances and exciting challenges that are of considerable interest to students and researchers. The Vehicle Routing Problem: Latest Advances and New Challenges will focus a portfolio of significant technical advances that have evolved over the past few years for modeling and solving vehicle routing problems and VRP variations. New approaches for solving VRPs have been developed from important methodological advances. These developments have resulted in faster solutions algorithms, more accurate techniques, and an improvement in the ability to solve large-scale complex problems. Vehicle routing problems (VRP), including the traveling salesman problem, have marked the success of operations research more than almost any other set of combinatorial optimization problems. Recent trends have moved forward towards side-constraints (or experimentalvariations) that are motivated from practice in industry. The book reflects the most recent scholarship and the most important scholars in the field.

• ISBN: 978-0-387-77777-1
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 400
• Fecha Publicación: 01/05/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés