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Transportation Problem
Xiaoke Ma1 Yan Wang2 Tao Yang1,3 Yuanping Zhang1
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Department of Computer and Communication, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou 730050, P. R. China
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Department of Library, Northwest University for Nationalities, Lanzhou 730020, P. R. China
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College of Business Administration, Liaoning Technical University, Huludao 125105, P. R. China
Size Type Worst Best Worst Best Worst Best 0.09 GA−ES
GA−M
0.03
0.02
Table 3: The comparison on the capacity of searching
among GA-M, GA-ES and IGA, where N represents the 0.01
36:1092-1105, 1990.
0.06
[4] W.E. Walker, A heuristic adjacent extreme point
for the fixed charge problem. Management Science,
0.04
22:587-596, 1976.
[5] N.H. Tran and K. Tran, Combination of fuzzy
0.02 ranking and simulated annealing to improve dis-
crete fracture inversion. Mathematical and Com-
0
0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500
puter Modelling, 45:1010-1020, 2007.
The size of instance (nm)
[6] H.G. Santos, L.S. Ochi, E.H. Marinho and L.M.A.
Drummond, Combining an evolutionary algorithm
Fig. 3: The comparison on the capacity of searching in with data mining to solve a single-vehicle routing
term of average case with type E. problem. Neurocomputing, 70:70-77, 2006.
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Scott, Immune programming. Information Sci-
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E. gorithm for the single row layout problem in flexi-
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gether. The methods of selecting vaccines and con- gorithm for the linear transportation problem. IEEE
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Further research may be performed to test different the fixed charge transportation problem. Proceed-
strategies to improve the performance of IGA. Some of ing of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on
the areas of interest may be: 1) different strategies to Evolutionary Computation, pp.330-335, 1998.
selecting vaccine; 2) new method to construct immune [12] G.R. Raidl and B.A. Julstrom, Edges sets: an ef-
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7. Acknowledgement [13] M. Sun, J.E. Aroson, P.G. Mckeown and D.
Drinka, A tabu search heuristic procedure for
This work is supported by Nature Science Founda- the fixed charge transportation problem. European
tion of Gansu Province (Grant No. 3ZS051-A25-037) Journal of Operation Research, 106:441-456, 1998.
and Youth Foundation of Liaoning Technical University
(Grant No. 07A205).
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