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The traveling repairman problem is a customer-centric routing problem, in which the total waiting time of the customers is minimized, rather than the total travel time of a vehicle. To date, research on this problem has focused on exact algorithms and approximation methods. This paper presents the first metaheuristic approach for the traveling repairman problem.
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Salehipour, A., Sörensen, K., Goos, P. et al. Efficient GRASP+VND and GRASP+VNS metaheuristics for the traveling repairman problem. 4OR-Q J Oper Res 9, 189–209 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10288-011-0153-0
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Keywords
- Traveling repairman problem
- Minimum latency problem
- Variable neighborhood descent
- Variable neighborhood search
- GRASP