A Hybrid Metaheuristics Based on an Improved Set-Based Particle Swarm Optimization and a Self-Organizing Map for the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem
The capacitated vehicle routing problem (CVRP) is a representative NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem with broad applications in logistics and transportation. This paper proposes a hybrid metaheuristic, termed SPSOM-CVRP, which integrates an improved set-based particle swarm optimization (SPSO) with a self-orga...