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From: hoskinsd@bcsaic.boeing.com (Douglas Hoskins)
Subject: Re: vehicle routing and GAs
Message-ID: <DEys4q.1I2@bcsaic.boeing.com>
Organization: Boeing Computer Services
References: <43bkr1$4fg@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 20:41:13 GMT
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In article <43bkr1$4fg@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>,
Armin Grau <inf2028@wrzx86.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de> wrote:
>Is there anybody out there...
>
>who knows of any work on applying genetic algorithms to vehicle routing
>and/or vehicle scheduling problems? 
>
>Thanks,
>
>Armin Grau
>e-mail: wupp@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de
>

Yes, there are several dozen recent paper in this area.

From an Evolutionary Programming perspective:

McDonnell-J-R.  Page-W-C.  
Mobile robot path planning using evolutionary programming.
Twenty-Fourth Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers
(Cat. No.90CH2988-4).  Pacific Grove, CA, USA.  pp. 1025-9 vol.2.
IEEE.  Naval Post Graduate Sch.  5-7 Nov.  1990.


I believe they also had papers in the first and second annual
conferences on evolutionary programming.


A few of the 51 citations INSPEC draws if searched on path-planning
and genetic-algorithm:

Tajima-T.  Nakano-K.  Ichikawa-M.  Maeda-H.  
A real-time path planning using genetic algorithms.  Journal of
Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence. vol.10, no.1. pp.
94-104.  1995.

Gomi-T.  Ide-K-I.  Matsuo-H.  
The development of a fully autonomous ground vehicle (FAGV).
Proceedings of the Intelligent Vehicles '94 Symposium (Cat.
No.94TH8011).  Paris, France.  pp. 62-7.  IEEE Ind.  Electron. Soc.
24-26 Oct. 1994.

Hein-C.  Meystel-A.
A genetic technique for robotic trajectory planning.
Telematics and Informatics.  vol.11, no.4.  pp. 351-64.  Fall 1994.

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