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Title: A Parallel Algorithm for the Vehicle Routing Problem

Journal Article · · INFORMS Journal on Computing

The vehicle routing problem (VRP) is a dicult and well-studied combinatorial optimization problem. We develop a parallel algorithm for the VRP that combines a heuristic local search improvement procedure with integer programming. We run our parallel algorithm with as many as 129 processors and are able to quickly nd high-quality solutions to standard benchmark problems. We assess the impact of parallelism by analyzing our procedure's performance under a number of dierent scenarios.

Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
DE-AC05-00OR22725
OSTI ID:
1110893
Journal Information:
INFORMS Journal on Computing, Vol. 23, Issue 2; ISSN 1091--9856
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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