Papers on the Traveling Salesmans Problem

Papers on the Vehicle Routing Problem

Papers on Airline OR and related areas


Papers on the TSP

  1. David Applegate, Robert Bixby, Vasek Chvátal, and William Cook, On the solution of travelling salesman problems, Documenta Mathematica, vol. 3, pp. 645 - 656, 1998. Extra volume ICM 1998.

  2. David Applegate, Robert Bixby, Vasek Chvátal, and William Cook, Finding tours in the tsp, Tech. Rep. TR99-05, Departement of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University, 1999.

  3. Leonard M. Adleman, Molecular computation of solutions to combinatorial problems, Science, vol. 266, pp. 1021 - 1024, 1994.

  4. Norbert Ascheuer, Matteo Fischetti, and Martin Grötschel, A polyhedral study of the asymmetric travelling salesman problem with time windows. Available via WWW at tt www.zib.de, February 1997. Preprint.

  5. Norbert Ascheuer, Matteo Fischetti, and Martin Grötschel, Solving the asymmetric travelling salesman problem with time windows by branch-and-cut, August 1999. Preprint SC 99-31.

  6. Esther M. Arkin, Sandor P. Fekete, and Joseph S. B. Mitchell, Approximation algorithms for lawn mowing and milling, Computational Geometry, vol. 17, pp. 25 - 50, 2000.

  7. Norbert Ascheuer, Michael Jünger, and Gerhard Reinelt, A branch & cut algorithm for the asymmetric hamiltonian path problem with precedence constraints. Available via www at www.zib.de, December 1997. Preprint.

  8. Norbert Ascheuer, Hamiltonian Path Problems in the On-Line Optimization of Flexible Manufacturing Systems. PhD thesis, Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin, February 1996.

  9. Edward K. Baker, An exact algorithm for the time-constrained travelling salesman problem, Operations Research, vol. 31, pp. 938 - 945, September-October 1983.

  10. N. L. Boland, L. W. Clarke, and G. L. Nemhauser, The asymmetric traveling salesman problem with replenishment arcs, European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 123, pp. 408 - 427, 2000.

  11. Rainer E. Burkard, Vladimir G. Deineko, René van Dal, Jack A. A. van~der Veen, and Gerhard J. Woeginger, Well-solvable special cases of the TSP: A survey, Tech. Rep. 52, Karl-Franzens-Universität & Technische Universität Graz, Dezember 1995.

  12. Egon Balas and Matteo Fischetti, A lifting procedure for the asymmetric traveling salesman polytope and a large new class of facets, Mathematical Programming, vol. 58, no. 3, pp. 325 - 352, 1993.

  13. Egon Balas, Matteo Fischetti, and William R. Pulleyblank, The precedence-constrained asymmetric traveling salesman polytope, Mathematical Programming, vol. 68, no. 3, pp. 241 - 265, 1995.

  14. Giovanni Cesari, Divide and conquer strategies for parallel TSP heuristics, Computers & Operations Research, vol. 23, no. 7, pp. 681 - 694, 1996.

  15. Irene Charon and Olivier Hudry, Application of the noising method to the travelling salesman problem, European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 125, pp. 266 - 277, 2000.

  16. Harlan Crowder and Manfred W. Padberg, Solving large-scale symmetric travelling salesman problems to optimality, Management Science, vol. 26, pp. 495 - 509, March 1980.

  17. Thomas Christof and G. Reinelt, Parallel cutting plane generation for the TSP, extended abstract, Institut für Angewandte Mathematik, Universität Heidelberg, January 1995.

  18. Giogio Carpaneto and Paolo Toth, Some new branching and bounding criteria for the asymmetric travelling salesman problem, Managemant Science, vol. 26, pp. 736 - 743, July 1980.

  19. Yvan Dumas, Jacques Desrosiers, Eric Gelinas, and Marius M. Solomon, An optimal algorithm for the traveling salesman problem with time windows, Operations Research, vol. 43, pp. 367 - 371, March-April 1995.

  20. G. Dantzig, R. Fulkerson, and S. Johnson, Solution of a large-scale traveling-salesman problem, Operations Research, vol. 2, pp. 393 - 410, 1954.

  21. Marco Dorigo and Luca Maria Gambardella, Ant colonies for the traveling salesman problem, Tech. Rep. 1996/3, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1996.

  22. Martin Desrochers and Gilbert Laporte, Improvements and extensions to the miller-tucker-zemlin subtour elimination constraints, Operations Research Letters, vol. 10, pp. 27 - 36, 1991.

  23. Vladimir G. Deineko, Rüdiger Rudolf, and Gerhard J. Woeginger, Sometimes travelling is easy: The master tour problem, SIAM Journal of Discrete Mathematics, vol. 11, pp. 81 - 93, 1998.

  24. Jacques Desrosiers, Michel Sauvé, and François Soumis, Lagrangian relaxation methods for solving the minimum fleet size multiple traveling salesman problem with time windows, Management Science, vol. 34, pp. 1005 - 1022, August 1988.

  25. Vladimir G. Deineko and Gerhard J. Woeginger, A study of exponential neighborhoods for the travelling salesman problem and for the quadratic assignment problem, Mathematical Programming, Series A, vol. 87, pp. 519 - 542, 2000.

  26. Paulo M. França, Michel Gendreau, Gilbert Laporte, and Felipe M. Müller, The m-traveling salemsman problem with minmax objective, Transportation Science, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 267 - 275, 1995.

  27. C. N. Fiechter, A parallel tabu search algorithm for large traveling salesman problems, Discrete Applie Mathematics, vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 243 - 267, 1994.

  28. Alan Frieze, Richard M. Karp, and Bruce Reed, When is the assignment bound tight for the asymmetric traveling-salesman problem. Working Paper.

  29. Robert S. Garfinkel, On partitioning the feasible set in a branch-and-bound algorithm for the asymmetric traveling-salesman problem, Operations Research, vol. 21, pp. 340 - 343, 1973.

  30. Michel Gendreau, Alain Hertz, Gilbert Laporte, and Mihnea Stan, A generalized insertion heuristic for the traveling salesman problem with time windows, Operations Research, vol. 43, pp. 330 - 335, May-June 1998.

  31. Fred Glover, Finding a best traveling salesman 4-opt move in the same time as a best 2-opt move, Journal of Heuristics, vol. 2, pp. 169 - 179, 1996.

  32. Michel Gendreau, Gilbert Laporte, and Daniele Vigo, Heuristics for the traveling salesman problem with pickup and delivery, Computers & Operations Research, vol. 26, pp. 699 - 714, 1999.

  33. Michel X. Goemans, Worst-case comparison of valid inequalities for the TSP, Mathematical Programming, 1995.

  34. Martin Grötschel and Manfred W. Padberg, On the symmetric travelling salesman problem I: Inequalities, Mathematical Programming, vol. 16, pp. 265 - 280, 1979.

  35. Martin Grötschel and Manfred W. Padberg, On the symmetric travelling salesman problem II: Lifting theorem and facets, Mathematical Programming, vol. 16, pp. 281 - 302, 1979.

  36. Luis Gouveia and Jose Manuel Pires, The asymmetric travelling salesman problem: on generalizations of disaggregated miller-tucker-zemlin constraints, Discrete Applied Mathematics, vol. 112, pp. 129 - 145, 2001.

  37. Gregory Gutin, Exponential neighbourhood local search for the traveling salesman problem, Computers & Operations Research, vol. 26, pp. 313 - 320, 1999.

  38. Gregory Gutin and Anders Yeo, Small diameter neighbourhood graphs for the traveling salesman problem: at most four moves from tour to tour, Computers & Operations Research, vol. 26, pp. 321 - 327, 1999.

  39. Michael Held and Richard M. Karp, The traveling-salesman problem and minimum spanning trees, Operations Research, vol. 18, pp. 1138 - 1162, 1970.

  40. Michael Held and Richard M. Karp, The traveling-salesman problem and minimum spanning trees: Part ii, Mathematical Programming, vol. 1, pp. 6 - 25, 1971.

  41. David S. Johnson and Lyle A. McGeoch, Local Search in Combinatorial Optimization, ch. The Traveling Salesman Problem: A Case Study in Local Optimization, pp. 215 - 310. John Wiley and Sons, Ltd., 1997. Preliminary draft of chapter.

  42. Michael Jünger, Gerhard Reinelt, and Stefan Thienel, Provably good solutions for the traveling salesman problem, Tech. Rep. 92.114, Institut für Informatik, Universität zu Köln, 1992.

  43. Michael Jünger and Peter Störmer, Solving large-scale traveling salesman problems with parallel branch-and-cut, Tech. Rep. 95.191, Zentrum für paralleles rechnen, Institut für Informatik, Universität zu Köln, 1995.

  44. Sean Kearns, Finding the shortest routes for monkeys and salesmen, ION Science, vol. 08.21.95, August 1995. ION Science is a WWW-journal available at tt http://-www.injersey.com/-media/-IonSci/.

  45. S. Kirkpatrick and G. Toulouse, Configuration space analysis of travelling salesman problems, Journal de Physique, vol. 46, pp. 1277 - 1292, 1985.

  46. Gilbert Laporte, Ardavan Asef-Vaziri, and Chelliah Sriskandarajah, Some applications of the generalized travelling salesman problem, Journal of the Operational Research Society, vol. 47, pp. 1461 - 1467, 1996.

  47. André Langevin, Martin Desrochers, Jacques Desrosiers, Sylvie Gélinas, and François Soumis, A two-commodity flow formulation for the travelling salesman and the makespan problems with time windows, Networks, vol. 23, pp. 631 - 640, 1993.

  48. Luiz Antonio N. Lorena and Marcelo Gonçalves Narciso, Using logical surrogate information in lagrangean relaxation: An application to symmetric traveling salesman problems, European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 138, pp. 473 - 483, 2002.

  49. Jens Lysgaard, Cluster based branching for the asymmetric travelling salesman problem. Presented at the EURO XV/INFORMS XXXIV Joint International Conference, Barcelona, July 1997.

  50. Vicky H. Mak, On the Asymmetric Travelling Salesman Problem with Replenishment Arcs. PhD thesis, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne, August 2001.

  51. Aristide Mingozzi, Lucio Bianco, and Salvatore Ricciardelli, Dynamic programming strategies for the traveling salesman problem with time window and precedence constraints, Operations Research, vol. 45, no. 3, pp. 365 - 377, 1997.

  52. Aristide Mingozzi, Lucio Bianco, and Salvatore Ricciardelli, Dynamic programming strategies for the travelling salesman problem with time window and precedence constraints, Operations Research, vol. 45, pp. 365 - 377, May-June 1997.

  53. King Tim Mak and Andrew J. Morton, Distances between traveling salesman tours, Discrete Applied Mathematics, vol. 58, pp. 281 - 291, 1995.

  54. Denis Naddef and Giovanni Rinaldi, The graphical relaxation: A new framework for the symmetric traveling salesman polytype, Mathematical Programming, vol. 58, no. 1, pp. 53 - 88, 1993.

  55. Giuseppe Paletta, The period traveling salesman problem: a new heuristic algorithm, Computers & Operations Research, vol. 29, pp. 1343 - 1352, 2002.

  56. Manfred W. Padberg and Giovanni Rinaldi, Optimization of a 532-city symmetric traveling salesman problem by branch and cut, Operations Research Letters, vol. 6, pp. 1 - 7, March 1987.

  57. Manfred Padberg and Giovanni Rinaldi, A branch-and-cut algorithm for the resolution of large-scale symmetric travelling salesman problems, SIAM Review, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 60 - 100, 1991.

  58. Maurice Queyranne and Yaoguang Wang, Hamiltonian path and symmetric travelling salesman polytypes, Mathematical Programming, vol. 58, no. 1, pp. 89 - 110, 1993.

  59. Martin W. P. Savelsbergh, An efficient implementation of local search algorithms for constrained routing, European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 47, pp. 75 - 85, 1990.

  60. Martin W. P. Savelsbergh, Local search in routing problems with time windows, Annals of Operations Research, vol. 4, pp. 285 - 305, 1985/6.

  61. Shigeru Tsubakitani and James R. Evans, An empirical study of a new metaheuristic for the traveling salesman problem, European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 104, pp. 113 - 128, 1998.

  62. Shigeru Tsubakitani and James R. Evans, Optimizing tabu list size for the traveling salesman problem, Computers & Operations Research, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 91 - 97, 1998.

  63. Christos Voudouris and Edward Tsang, Guided local search and its application to the traveling salesman problem, European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 113, pp. 469 - 499, 1999.

  64. William J. Wolfe, A fuzzy hopfield-tank traveling salesman problem model, INFORMS Journal of Computing, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 329 - 344, 1999.

  65. Russ J. Vander Wiel and Nikolaos V. Sahinidis, An exact solution approach for the time-dependent traveling-salesman problem, Naval Research Logistics, vol. 43, pp. 797 - 820, 1996.


Papers on the VRP

  1. N. R. Achuthan and L. Caccetta, Integer linear programming formulation for a vehicle routing problem, European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 52, pp. 86 - 89, 1991.

  2. David Applegate, William Cook, Sanjeeb Dash, and André Rohe, Solution of a min-max vehicle routing problem, INFORMS Journal of Computing, vol. 14, pp. 132 - 143, Spring 2002.

  3. N. R. Achuthan, L. Caccetta, and S. P. Hill, Capacitated vehicle routing problem: Some new cutting planes, Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research, vol. 15, pp. 109 - 123, 1998.

  4. Jürgen Antes and Ulrich Derigs, A new parallel tour construction algorithm for the vehicle routing problem with time windows, tech. rep., Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik und Operations Research, Universität zu Köln, March 1995.

  5. M. A. Al-Fawzan and K. S. Al-Sultan, The vehicle routing problem: a survey, in Proceedings of the Fifth Industrial Engineering Research Conference, pp. 269 - 274, 1996.

  6. Kemal Altinkemer and Bezalel Gavish, Heuristics for delivery problem with constants error guarantees, Transportation Science, vol. 24, pp. 294 - 297, November 1990.

  7. Kemal Altinkemer and Bezalel Gavish, Parallel savings based heuristics for the delivery problem, Operations Research, vol. 39, pp. 456 - 469, May-June 1991.

  8. Tetsuo Asano, Naoki Katoh, and Kazuhiro Kawashima, A new approximation algorithm for the capacitated vehicle routing problem on a tree, Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, vol. 5, pp. 213 - 231, 2001.

  9. J. R. Araque, G. Kudva, T. L. Morin, and J. F. Pekny, A branch-and-cut algorithm for vehicle routing problems, Annals of Operations Research, vol. 50, pp. 37 - 59, 1994.

  10. Tetsuo Asano, Naoki Katoh, Hisao Tamaki, and Takeshi Tokuyama, Covering points in the plane by k-tours: towards a polynomial time approximation scheme for general k, in STOC '97, pp. 275 - 283, ACM, 1997.

  11. Yogesh Agarwal, Kamlesh Mathur, and Harvey M. Salkin, A set-partitioning-based exact algorithm for the vehicle routing problem, Networks, vol. 19, pp. 731 - 749, 1989.

  12. L. D. Aronson, Algorithms for vehicle routing - a survey, Tech. Rep. 96-21, Delft University of Technology, 1996.

  13. Enrico Angelelli and Maria Grazia Speranza, The periodic vehicle routing problem with intermediate facilities. Working paper.

  14. C. Archetti and M. G. Speranza, The 1-skip collection problem. Draft, April 2002.

  15. J. Ben Atkinson, A greedy look-ahead heuristic for combinatorial optimization: An application to vehicle scheduling with time windows, Journal of the Operational Research Society, vol. 45, no. 6, pp. 673 - 684, 1994.

  16. J. Ben Atkinson, A greedy randomised search heuristic for time-constrained vechile scheduling and the incorporation of a learning strategy, Journal of the Operational Research Society, vol. 49, pp. 700 - 708, 1998.

  17. Nagraj Balakrishnan, Simple heuristics for the vehicle routing problem with soft time windows, Journal of the Operational Research Society, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 279 - 287, 1993.

  18. John E. Beasley, Route first-cluster second methods for vehicle routing, Omega, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 403 - 408, 1983.

  19. Bruno De Backer and Vincent Furnon, Meta-heuristics in constraint programming experiments with tabu search on the vehicle routing problem, in Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Metaheuristics, July 1997.

  20. Bruno De Backer and Vincent Furnon, Meta-heuristics - Advances and Trends in Local Search Paradigms for Optimization, ch. 5. Local Search in Constraint Programming: Experiments with Tabu Search on the Vehicle Routing Problem, pp. 63 - 76. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999.

  21. Chuda Basnet, Les Foulds, and Magid Igbaria, Fleetmanager: a microcomputer-based decision support system for vehicle routing, Decision Support Systems, vol. 16, pp. 195 - 207, 1996.

  22. Bruno De Backer, Vincent Furnon, Philip Kilby, Patrick Prosser, and Paul Shaw, Local search in constraint programming: Application to the vehicle routing problem. Submitted to CP-97 Workshop on Scheduling, 1997.

  23. Bruno De Backer, Vincent Furnon, Philip Kilby, Patrick Prosser, and Paul Shaw, Solving vehicle routing problems using constraint programming and metaheuristics. Submitted to Journal of Heuristics, 1997.

  24. C. Basnet, L. R. Foulds, and J. M. Wilson, Heuristics for vehicle routing on tree-like networks, Journal of the Operational Research Society, vol. 50, pp. 627 - 635, 1999.

  25. Lawrence Bodin and Bruce Golden, Classification in vehicle routing and scheduling, Networks, vol. 11, pp. 97 - 108, 1981.

  26. Lawrence Bodin, Bruce Golden, Arjang Assad, and Michael Ball, Routing and scheduling of vehicles and crews - the state of art, Computers & Operations Research, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 62 - 212, 1983.

  27. Philippe Badeau, Michel Gendreau, François Guertin, Jean Yves Potvin, and Éric Taillard, A parallel tabu search heuristic for the vehicle routing problems with time windows, Tech. Rep. CRT-95-84, Centre de recherche sur les transports, December 1995.

  28. Ulrich Blasum and Winfried Hochstättler, Application of the branch and cut method to the vehicle routing problem, tech. rep., Universität zu Köln, May 2000.

  29. Russell Bent and Pascal Van Hentenryck, citeseer.nj.nec.com/454901.html>A two-stage hybrid local search for the vehicle routing problem with time windows, Tech. Rep. CS-01-06, 2001.

  30. Jonathan F. Bard, Liu Huang, Moshe Dror, and Patrick Jaillet, A branch and cut algorithm for the vrp with satellite facilities, IIE Transactions, vol. 30, pp. 821 - 834, 1998.

  31. A. Bachem, W. Hochstättler, and M. Malich, The simulated trading heuristic for solving vehicle routing problems, Tech. Rep. 93.139, Mathematisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, 1993.

  32. A. Bachem, W. Hochstättler, and M. Malich, Simulated trading - a new parallel approach for solving vehicle routing problems, in Parallel Computing: Trends and Applications, 1994. Report no. 92.125.

  33. A. Bachem, W. Hochstättler, and M. Malich, The simulated trading heuristic for solving vehicle routing problems, Discrete Applied Mathematics, vol. 65, pp. 47 - 72, 1996.

  34. Bernd Bullnheimer, Richard F. Hartl, and Christine Strauss, An improved ant system for the vehicle routing problem. Available on the web, 1997.

  35. Bernd Bullnheimer, Richard F. Hartl, and Christine Strauss, Meta-heuristics - Advances and Trends in Local Search Paradigms for Optimization, ch. 20. Applying the ant system to the vehicle routing problem, pp. 285 - 296. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999.

  36. Arno Bruns and Andreas Klose, A locate first - route second heuristic for a combined location-routeing problem, in Operations Research Proceedings 1996 (U. Zimmerman, U. Derigs, W. Gaul, R. H. Möring, and K. P. Schuster, eds.), pp. 49 - 54, Springer, 1996.

  37. Jonathan F. Bard, George Kontoravdis, and Gang Yu, A branch-and-cut procedure for the vehicle routing problem with time windows, Transportation Science, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 250 - 269, 2002.

  38. Lawrence Bodin and Laurence Levy, Visualization in vehicle routing and scheduling problems, ORSA Journal of Computing, vol. 6, pp. 261 - 269, Summer 1994. Commentary.

  39. J. M. Belenguer, M. C. Martinez, and E. Mota, A lower bound for the split delivery vehicle routing problem, Operations Research, vol. 48, no. 5, pp. 801 - 810, 2000.

  40. Melissa Bowers, Charles E. Noon, and Benjamin Thomas, A parallel implementation of the tssp+1 decomposition for the capacity-constrained vehicle routing problem, Computers & Operations Research, vol. 23, no. 7, pp. 723 - 732, 1996.

  41. Gulay Barbarosoglu and Demet Ozgur, A tabu search algorithm for the vehicle routing problem, Computers & Operations Research, vol. 26, pp. 255 - 270, 1999.

  42. Lawrence D. Bodin, Twenty years of routing and scheduling, Operations Research, vol. 38, pp. 571 - 579, July-August 1990.

  43. Kai Borre, GIS i Danmark, ch. GPS til GIS, pp. 203 - 207. Teknisk Forlag, 1994. In Danish.

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  45. José Brandão, Meta-heuristics - Advances and Trends in Local Search Paradigms for Optimization, ch. 2. Metaheuristic for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows, pp. 19 - 36. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999.

  46. Olli Bräysy, Local search and Variable Neighborhood Search Algorithms for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows. PhD thesis, University of Vaasa, 2001.

  47. Alex Van Breedam, Vehicle routing: Bridging the gap between theory and practice, Belgian Journal of Operations Research, Statistics and Computer Science, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 63 - 80, 1995.

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  49. Barrie M. Baker and Janice Sheasby, Extensions to the generalised assignment heuristic for vehicle routing, European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 119, pp. 147 - 157, 1999.

  50. Enrique Benavent and David Soler, The directed rural postman problem with turn penalties, Transportation Science, vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 408 - 418, 1999.

  51. Dimitris J. Bertsimas and David Simchi-Levi, A new generation of vehicle routing research: robust algorithms, addressing uncertainty, Operations Research, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 286 - 304, 1996.

  52. Julien Bramel and David Simchi-Levi, Probabilistic analyses and practical algorithms for the vehicle routing problem with time windows, Operations Research, vol. 44, pp. 501 - 509, May-June 1996.

  53. Julien Bramel and David Simchi-Levi, On the effectiveness of set covering formulations for the vehicle routing problem with time windows, Operations Research, vol. 45, pp. 295 - 301, March-April 1997.

  54. Roberto Cordone and Roberto Wolfler Calvo, A heuristic for the vehicle routing problem with time windows, Journal of Heuristics, vol. 7, pp. 107 - 129, 2001.

  55. Zbigniew Czech and Piotr Czarnas, Parallel simulated annealing for the vehicle routing problem with time windows, in Proceedings of the 10th Euromicro Workshop on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing (EUROMICRO-PDP '02), The IEEE Computer Society, IEEE, 2002.

  56. Ann Campbell, Lloyd Clarke, Anton Kleywegt, and Martin Savelsbergh, The inventory routing problem, tech. rep., The Logistics Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology, October 1997.

  57. V. Campos, A. Corberan, and E. Mota, Polyhedral results for a vehicle routing problem, European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 52, pp. 75 - 85, 1991.

  58. Alain Chabrier, Émilie Danna, and Claude Le Pape, Copération entre génération de colonnes avec tournées sans cycle et recherche locale appliquée au routage de véhicules. Draft [in French], 2002.

  59. P. De Causmaecker, P Demeester, P. De Pauw-Waterschoot, and G. Vanden Berghe, Agents in a route planning application, JORBEL - Belgian Journal of Operations Research, Statistics and Computer Science, vol. 40, pp. 105 - 116, 2000.

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  68. Teodor Gabriel Crainic and Gilbert Laporte, Fleet Management and Logistics. Kluwer, 1998.

  69. Yves Caseau and François Laburthe, Heuristics for large constrained vehicle routing problems, Journal of Heuristics, vol. 5, pp. 281 - 303, 1999.

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  75. Jean Francois Cordeau, Federico Pasin, and Marius M. Solomon, An integrated model for logistics network design. Draft, May 2002.

  76. Wen Chyuan Chiang and Robert A. Russell, Simulated annealing metaheuristics for the vehicle routing problem with time windows, Annals of Operations Research, vol. 63, pp. 3 - 27, 1996.

  77. Wen Chyuan Chiang and Robert A. Russell, A reactive tabu search metaheuristic for the vehicle routing problem with time windows, INFORMS Journal of Computing, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 417 - 430, 1997.

  78. William Cook and Jennifer L. Rich, A parallel cutting-plane algorithm for the vehicle routing problem with time windows, Tech. Rep. TR99-04, Departement of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University, 1999.

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  81. Xiong Chen, Weishui Wan, and Xinhe Xu, Modeling rolling batch planning as vehicle routing problem with time windows, Computers Operations Research, vol. 25, no. 12, pp. 1127 - 1136, 1998.

  82. Claudio Barbieri da Cunha and Joffre Swait, New dominance criteria for the generalized permanent labelling algorithm for the shortest path problem with time windows on dense graphs, International Transactions in Operations Research, vol. 7, pp. 139 - 157, 2000.

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  85. Guy Desaulniers, Jacques Desrosiers, and Maurius M. Solomon, Accelerating strategies in column generation methods for vehicle routing and crew scheduling problems, Tech. Rep. G-99-36, GERAD, August 1999.

  86. Jacques Desrosiers, Yvan Dumas, Marius M. Solomon, and F. Soumis, Time constrained routing and scheduling, tech. rep., GERAD, September 1993.

  87. Guy Desaulniers, Jacques Desrosiers, Maurius M. Solomon, and François Soumis, The vrp with time windows, Tech. Rep. G-99-13, GERAD, February 1999.

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  89. Jan Dethloff, Vehicle routing and reverse logistics: the vehicle routing problem with simultaneous delivery and pick-up, OR Spektrum, vol. 23, pp. 79 - 96, 2001.

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