Heuristic sequence selection for inventory routing problem

Kheiri, Ahmed (2020) Heuristic sequence selection for inventory routing problem. Transportation Science, 54 (2). pp. 302-312. ISSN 0041-1655

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Abstract

In this paper, an improved sequence-based selection hyper-heuristic method for the Air Liquide inventory routing problem, the subject of the ROADEF/EURO 2016 challenge, is described. The organizers of the challenge have proposed a real-world problem of inventory routing as a difficult combinatorial optimization problem. An exact method often fails to find a feasible solution to such problems. On the other hand, heuristics may be able to find a good quality solution that is significantly better than those produced by an expert human planner. There is a growing interest toward self-configuring automated general-purpose reusable heuristic approaches for combinatorial optimization. Hyper-heuristics have emerged as such methodologies. This paper investigates a new breed of hyper-heuristics based on the principles of sequence analysis to solve the inventory routing problem. The primary point of this work is that it shows the usefulness of the improved sequence-based selection hyper-heuristic, and in particular demonstrates the advantages of using a data science technique of hidden Markov model for the heuristic selection.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Transportation Science
Uncontrolled Keywords:
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Subjects:
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ID Code:
138079
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Deposited On:
21 Oct 2019 08:50
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