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How to Generate Benchmarks for Rich Routing Problems?

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Intelligent Information and Database Systems (ACIIDS 2016)

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In this paper, we show how to generate challenging benchmark tests for rich vehicle routing problems (VRPs) using a new heuristic algorithm (termed HeBeG—Heuristic Benchmark Generator). We consider a modified VRP with time windows, in which the depot does not define its time window. Additionally, the taxicab metric is utilized to determine the distance between travel points, instead of a standard Euclidean metric. HeBeG was used to create a test set for the qualifying round of Deadline24—an international 24-hour programming marathon. Finally, we compare the best results submitted to the server during the qualifying round of the contest with the routing schedules elaborated using other algorithms, including a new heuristics proposed in this paper.

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    https://www.sintef.no/projectweb/top/vrptw/.

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    For details see: https://www.deadline24.pl/.

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    For the details of these tests see: http://sun.aei.polsl.pl/~jnalepa/HeBeG/.

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This work was performed using the infrastructure supported by the POIG.02.03.01-24-099/13 grant: “GeCONiI—Upper Silesian Center for Computational Science and Engineering”.

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  1. Deadline24, Gliwice, Poland

    Marcin Cwiek, Jakub Nalepa & Marcin Dublanski

  2. Future Processing, Gliwice, Poland

    Marcin Cwiek, Jakub Nalepa & Marcin Dublanski

  3. Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland

    Jakub Nalepa

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  2. Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław, Poland

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  3. Iwate Prefectural University, Takizawa, Japan

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  4. National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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Cwiek, M., Nalepa, J., Dublanski, M. (2016). How to Generate Benchmarks for Rich Routing Problems?. In: Nguyen, N.T., Trawiński, B., Fujita, H., Hong, TP. (eds) Intelligent Information and Database Systems. ACIIDS 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9621. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49381-6_38

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