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The paper proposes a new hybrid approach for Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (VRPTW), which combines a cooperative problem solving paradigm with the reactive search. Process of searching for the best solution is performed by a set of cooperating heuristics working on a population of individuals. Additionally, at each iteration, a history of search of each heuristic and its performance are recorded, and next used for dynamic management of the set of heuristics and adjustment their parameters. Computational experiment which has been carried out confirmed the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
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Barbucha, D. (2014). A Hybrid Cooperative and Reactive Search Approach for Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows. In: Nguyen, N.T., Attachoo, B., Trawiński, B., Somboonviwat, K. (eds) Intelligent Information and Database Systems. ACIIDS 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8398. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05458-2_22
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