On the potentials of parallelizing large neighbourhood search for rich vehicle routing problems

  • Authors:
  • Paul Bartodziej;Ulrich Derigs;Ulrich Vogel

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Cologne, Department of Information Systems and Operations Research, Köln, Germany;University of Cologne, Department of Information Systems and Operations Research, Köln, Germany;University of Cologne, Department of Information Systems and Operations Research, Köln, Germany

  • Venue:
  • LION'10 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Learning and intelligent optimization
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In this paper we present preliminary results on parallelizing the Large Neighbourhood Search heuristic (LNS) for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Pickup and Delivery and Time Windows (VRPPDTW) using pb.net, a framework for easy and efficient parallelization of problem solving heuristics.