Strategic Route Planning: An Adaptive BR-Heuristic for Multi-depot Logistics

[EN] The multiple traveling salesman problem (mTSP) is an extension of the well-known traveling salesman problem (TSP), requiring multiple agents to visit a set of nodes and return to their respective depot. This problem finds wide-ranging applications in robotics, transportation and networking, amo...

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Autores: Escoto-Gomar, Marc, Medina-Rodriguez, Veronica, Guerrero, Antoni
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:dnet:riunet______::95c37e97cbde86ba56654dcd6a129377
Acceso en línea:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/235792
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Multiple traveling salesman problem
Bias-randomizatio
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Sumario:[EN] The multiple traveling salesman problem (mTSP) is an extension of the well-known traveling salesman problem (TSP), requiring multiple agents to visit a set of nodes and return to their respective depot. This problem finds wide-ranging applications in robotics, transportation and networking, among other domains. Moreover, it can be readily extended to a vehicle routing problem (VRP) by introducing extra constraints. This article presents a hybrid method for addressing the multi-depot closed path mTSP by integrating a bias-randomized heuristic with iterative local search (ILS). Furthermore, this algorithm is enhanced with a self-tuning mechanism, eliminating the need for timeconsuming fine-tuning processes. The results provided by this algorithm with a different number of depots are analyzed.