Vehicle routing problem with time windows and fuzzy demands: an approach based on the possibility theory Online publication date: Wed, 27-Jan-2010
by Gilles Goncalves, Tiente Hsu, Jian Xu
International Journal of Advanced Operations Management (IJAOM), Vol. 1, No. 4, 2009
Abstract: In this paper, the vehicle routing problem with time windows and fuzzy demands (VRPTWFD) is considered and a fuzzy recourse model based on the possibility theory is proposed. A stochastic simulation and a genetic algorithm (GA) are integrated to design a hybrid intelligent algorithm to solve the fuzzy version of a stochastic recourse model. Moreover, an adaptation of the Solomon's benchmark is proposed in order to assess the quality of the proposed approach.
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