Frequency of Co-operation of Parallel Simulated Annealing Processes

  • Zbigniew J. Czech
  • Bożena Wieczorek
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 3911)

Abstract

A parallel simulated annealing algorithm to solve the vehicle routing problem with time windows is considered. The objective is to investigate how the frequency of co-operation of parallel simulated annealing processes influences the quality of solutions to the problem. The quality of a solution is measured by its proximity to the optimum solution.

Keywords

Parallel simulated annealing frequency of co-operation of parallel processes vehicle routing problem with time windows bicriterion optimization 

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Zbigniew J. Czech
    • 1
    • 2
  • Bożena Wieczorek
    • 3
  1. 1.Silesia University of TechnologyGliwice
  2. 2.University of SilesiaSosnowiecPoland
  3. 3.Katowice School of EconomicsKatowicePoland

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