In manual order picking systems, order pickers walk or drive through a distribution warehouse inorder to collect items which are requested by (internal or external) customers. In order to performthese operations efficiently, it is usually required that customer orders are combined into (more...

In this paper we propose a hybrid approach for solving vehicle routing problems. The main idea is to combine an Ant System (AS) with a problem specific constructive heuristic, namely the well known Savings algorithm. This differs from previous approaches, where the subordinate heuristic was the...

Vorliegendes Arbeitspapier beschreibt den entsprechenden Einsatz künstlicher Ameisen und diskutiert erste numerische Ergebnisse.

In manual order picking systems, order pickers walk or drive through a distribution warehouse in order to collect items which are requested by (internal or external) customers. In order to perform these operations effciently, it is usually required that customer orders are combined into (more...

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In manual order picking systems, order pickers walk or drive through a distribution warehouse in order to collect items which are requested by (internal or external) customers. In order to perform these operations efficiently, it is usually required that customer orders are combined into (more...