Introduction to Evolutionary Computing
Introduction to Evolutionary Computing
Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithms for Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows
Applied Intelligence
A Hybrid Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm for Solving Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows
Computational Optimization and Applications
Distance measures based on the edit distance for permutation-type representations
Journal of Heuristics
A fast and elitist multiobjective genetic algorithm: NSGA-II
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
An improved multi-objective evolutionary algorithm for the vehicle routing problem with time windows
Computers and Operations Research
Optimizing delivery time in multi-objective vehicle routing problems with time windows
PPSN'10 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Parallel problem solving from nature: Part II
The vehicle routing problem with backhauls: a multi-objective evolutionary approach
EvoCOP'12 Proceedings of the 12th European conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization
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The Vehicle Routing Problem's main objective is to find the lowest-cost set of routes to deliver goods to customers, which have a service time window, using a fleet of identical vehicles with restricted capacity. We consider the simultaneous minimization of the number of routes along with the total travel distance. Although previous research has used evolutionary methods for solving this problem, only a few of them have concentrated on the optimization of more than one objective, and none of them has considered the similarity of solutions. We propose and analyze one simple and straightforward method to measure similarity, which is incorporated into an evolutionary algorithm to solve the multi-objective problem. Results show that when we use the similarity measure to select one of the parents for crossover, solutions are spread over a wider area in the search space than when it is not used. Additionally, our solutions result to be competitive or better than others previously published.