one of methods of improvement of the material flow is cross docking that in is considered as a good method to reduce inventory and improve customer satisfaction. too, the vehicle routing problem is one of the important problems in distribution management and its goal is to find paths for delivering various cargos. therefore, this study was conducted in order to vehicle routing problem with cros...

The evolutionary approach called scatter search originated from strategies for creating composite decision rules and surrogate constraints. Recent studies demonstrate the practical advantages of this approach for solving a diverse array of optimisation problems from both classical and real world settings. Scatter search cont rasts with other evolutionary procedures, such as genetic algorithms, ...

In this paper scatter search algorithm has been hybridized with simulated annealing algorithm. Scatter search algorithm has some disadvantages which will be solved by using concepts of simulated annealing algorithm. Simulated annealing algorithm will provide scatter search algorithm with more of exploration for problem search space, this will increase ratio of getting optimal solutions. The hyb...

Scatter search is an evolutionary method that has been successfully applied to hard optimization problems. The fundamental concepts and principles of the method were first proposed in the 1970s, based on formulations dating back to the 1960s for combining decision rules and problem constraints. In contrast to other evolutionary methods like genetic algorithms, scatter search is founded on the p...

This paper reports an evolutionary approach called Scatter Search, that uses the concept of Pareto optimality to obtain a good approximate Pareto frontier. In order to designate a subset of strategies to be a reference solutions a choice function called Kramer Selection is used. A variant of measure of Kemen-Snell may be used, in our case study, in order to find a diverse set to complement the ...

Scatter search (SS) is an evolutionary approach for optimization. It has been applied to problems with continuous and discrete variables and with a single or multiple objectives. The success of scatter search as an optimization technique is well documented in a constantly growing number of journal articles and book chapters. This chapter first focuses on the basic scatter search framework, whic...