Heuristics for an Oil Delivery Vehicle routing Problem
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Abstract
Companies distributing heating oil typically solve vehicle routing problems on a daily basis. Their problems may involve various features such as a heterogeneous vehicle fleet, multiple depots, intra-route replenishments, time windows, driver shifts and optional customers. In this paper, we consider such a rich vehicle routing problem that arises in practice and develop three metaheuristics to address it, namely, a tabu search (TS) algorithm, a large neighborhood search (LNS) heuristic based on this TS heuristic and another LNS heuristic based on a column generation (CG) heuristic. Computational results obtained on instances derived from a real-world dataset indicate that the LNS methods outperform the TS heuristic. Furthermore, the LNS method based on CG tends to produce better quality results than the TS-based LNS heuristic, especially when sufficient computational time is available.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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