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Metaheuristics for the Team Orienteering Problem

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The Team Orienteering Problem (TOP) is the generalization to the case of mul- tiple tours of the Orienteering Problem, known also as Selective Traveling Salesman Problem. A set of potential customers is available and a profit is collected for the visit of each customer. A fleet of vehicles is available to visit the customers, within a given time limit. The profit of a customer can be collected by one vehicle at most. The objective is to identify the customers which maximize the total collected profit while satisfying the given time limit for each vehicle. We propose two variants of a generalized tabu search algorithm and a variable neighborhood search algorithm for the solution of the TOP and show that each of these algorithms beats the already known heuristics. Computational experiments are made on standard instances.

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Metaheuristics for the team orienteering problem
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Journal of Heuristics, 13(1), 49–76, 2007 référence BibTeX