Stochastic Local Search Application and Foundations

This is another book that i studied when implementing algorithms for VRP

Link: http://www.sls-book.net/
Reading Status: Completed

Local Search in Combinatorial Optimization

 This is the book i studied when implementing various local search heuristics for Vehicle Routing Problem.

Link: http://books.google.com.sg/books/about/Local_Search_in_Combinatorial_Optimizati.html?id=NWghN9G7q9MC&redir_esc=y

Reading Status: Completed

The Vehicle Routing Problem: Latest Advances and New Challenges

The Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) has been an especially active and fertile area of research. Over the past five to seven years, there have been numerous technological advances and exciting challenges that are of considerable interest to students, teachers, and researchers. The Vehicle Routing Problem: Latest Advances and New Challenges will focus on a host of significant technical advances that have evolved over the past few years for modeling and solving vehicle routing problems and variants. New approaches for solving VRPs have been developed from important methodological advances. These developments have resulted in faster solution algorithms, more accurate techniques, and an improvement in the ability to solve large-scale, complex problems.

The book will systematically examine these recent developments in the VRP and provide the following in a unified and carefully developed presentation: Present novel problems that have arisen in the vehicle routing domain and highlight new challenges for the field; Present significant methodological advances or new approaches for solving existing vehicle routing problems; Summarize the most significant research results for the vehicle routing problem and its variants from 2000 to the present.

Link: http://www.amazon.com/The-Vehicle-Routing-Problem-Challenges/dp/0387777776
Reading Status: Completed

Bio-inspired Algorithms for the Vehicle Routing Problem

The vehicle routing problem (VRP) is one of the most famous combinatorial optimization problems. In simple terms, the goal is to determine a set of routes with overall minimum cost that can satisfy several geographical scattered demands. Biological inspired computation is a field devoted to the development of computational tools modeled after principles that exist in natural systems. The adoption of such design principles enables the production of problem solving techniques with enhanced robustness and flexibility, able to tackle complex optimization situations. The goal of the volume is to present a collection of state-of-the-art contributions describing recent developments concerning the application of bio-inspired algorithms to the VRP. Over the 9 chapters, different algorithmic approaches are considered and a diverse set of problem variants are addressed. Some contributions focus on standard benchmarks widely adopted by the research community, while others address real-world situations.

Link: http://www.amazon.com/Bio-inspired-Algorithms-Vehicle-Computational-Intelligence/dp/3540851518
Reading Status: Completed

The Vehicle Routing Problem

This text covers the state-of-the-art solution methods developed at the end of the 20th century for the Vechicle Routing Problem (VRP) and some of its main variants, while also devoting a large part to the discussion of practical issues.

Link: http://www.amazon.com/Vehicle-Discrete-Monographs-Mathematics-Applications/dp/0898714982
Reading Status: Completed