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What is Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP)

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Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition
One of the famous optimization problems. In VRP, the vehicle can either deliver or pick up goods from customers. The objective of VRP is to design a set of vehicle routes that minimizes the total traveled distances.
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Applications of Swarm Intelligence in Remanufacturing
Bo Xing (Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, University of Pretoria, South Africa) and Wen-Jing Gao (Mei Yuan Mould Design and Manufacturing Co., China)
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 9
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5888-2.ch007
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