A HYBRID HEURISTIC ALGORITHM FOR THE CLUSTERED TRAVELING SALESMAN PROBLEM

• Autor(a) principal: Mestria,Mário
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Pesquisa operacional (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-74382016000100113
• topic: Combinatorial Problems; Clustered Traveling Salesman Problem; Hybrid Heuristic; GRASP; Iterated Local Search; Variable Neighborhood Structures

ABSTRACT This paper proposes a hybrid heuristic algorithm, based on the metaheuristics Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedure, Iterated Local Search and Variable Neighborhood Descent, to solve the Clustered Traveling Salesman Problem (CTSP). Hybrid Heuristic algorithm uses several variable neighborhood structures combining the intensification (using local search operators) and diversification (constructive heuristic and perturbation routine). In the CTSP, the vertices are partitioned into clusters and all vertices of each cluster have to be visited contiguously. The CTSP is ����-hard since it includes the well-known Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) as a special case. Our hybrid heuristic is compared with three heuristics from the literature and an exact method. Computational experiments are reported for different classes of instances. Experimental results show that the proposed hybrid heuristic obtains competitive results within reasonable computational time.