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Developing a Hyper-Heuristic Using Grammatical Evolution and the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem

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Simulated Evolution and Learning (SEAL 2014)

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A common problem when applying heuristics is that they often perform well on some problem instances, but poorly on others. We work towards developing a hyper-heuristic that manages delivery of good quality solutions to Vehicle Routing Problem instances with only limited prior knowledge of the problem domain to be solved. This paper develops a hyper-heuristic, using Grammatical Evolution, to generate and apply heuristics that develop good solutions. Through a series of experiments we expand and refine the technique, achieving good quality results on 40 well known Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem instances.

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  1. School of Mathematics, Statistics and Operations Research, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

    Richard J. Marshall & Mark Johnston

  2. School of Engineering and Computer Science, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

    Mengjie Zhang

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand

    Grant Dick

  2. Victoria University of Welling, New Zealand

    Will N. Browne

  3. University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

    Peter Whigham

  4. Unitec Institute of Technology, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

    Mengjie Zhang

  5. Le Quy Don Technical University, Hanoi, Vietnam

    Lam Thu Bui

  6. Department of Computer Science and Intelligent Systems, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University, 1-1 Gakuen-cho, Naka-ku, 599-8531, Sakai, Osaka, Japan

    Hisao Ishibuchi

  7. Department of Computing, University of Surrey, GU2 7XH, Guildford, Surrey, UK

    Yaochu Jin

  8. RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

    Xiaodong Li

  9. Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China

    Yuhui Shi

  10. Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior, India

    Pramod Singh

  11. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive 3, 117576, Singapore, Singapore

    Kay Chen Tan

  12. USTC-Birmingham Joint Research Institute in Intelligent Computation and Its Applications (UBRI), School of Computer Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, 230027, Hefei, China

    Ke Tang

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Marshall, R.J., Johnston, M., Zhang, M. (2014). Developing a Hyper-Heuristic Using Grammatical Evolution and the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem. In: Dick, G., et al. Simulated Evolution and Learning. SEAL 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8886. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13563-2_56

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