Most cited papers in Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods
What are the most cited papers in Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods?
The most cited paper in Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods is "Ant system: optimization by a colony of cooperating agents" (Marco Dorigo, Vittorio Maniezzo, A. Colorni, 1996), with 12,083 citations. Next come "Ant Colony Optimization" (6,658) and "Qualitative data analysis (2nd ed)" (5,607).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 838 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ant system: optimization by a colony of cooperating agents Marco Dorigo, Vittorio Maniezzo, A. Colorni · IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Part B (Cybernetics) | Feb 1996 | 12,083 |
| 2 | Ant Colony Optimization Teofilo F. Gonzalez | 15 May 2007 | 6,658 |
| 3 | Qualitative data analysis (2nd ed) Janice M. Morse · Journal of Psychosomatic Research | Sep 1996 | 5,607 |
| 4 | Tabu Search—Part I Fred Glover · INFORMS journal on computing | Aug 1989 | 5,076 |
| 5 | Algorithms for the Vehicle Routing and Scheduling Problems with Time Window Constraints Marius M. Solomon · Operations Research | Apr 1987 | 4,300 |
| 6 | Future paths for integer programming and links to artificial intelligence Fred Glover · Computers & Operations Research | 1986 | 4,164 |
| 7 | Scheduling of Vehicles from a Central Depot to a Number of Delivery Points Graham Clarke, J. W. Wright · Operations Research | Aug 1964 | 3,908 |
| 8 | Introduction to Operations Research Ferdinand F. Leimkuhler, Frederick S. Hillier, G. J. Lieberman · Technometrics | May 1968 | 3,347 |
| 9 | Metaheuristics in combinatorial optimization Christian Blum, Andrea Roli · ACM Computing Surveys | Sep 2003 | 3,226 |
| 10 | Ant Algorithms for Discrete Optimization Marco Dorigo, Gianni A. Di, Luca Maria Gambardella · Artificial Life | Apr 1999 | 2,823 |
| 11 | – Ant System Thomas Stützle, Holger H. Hoos · Future Generation Computer Systems | Jun 2000 | 2,735 |
| 12 | Theoretical Improvements in Algorithmic Efficiency for Network Flow Problems Jack Edmonds, Richard M. Karp · Journal of the ACM | Apr 1972 | 2,558 |
| 13 | An Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search Heuristic for the Pickup and Delivery Problem with Time Windows Stefan Røpke, David Pisinger · Transportation Science | Nov 2006 | 2,551 |
| 14 | Metaheuristics in Combinatorial Optimization Michel Gendreau, Jean‐Yves Potvin · Annals of Operations Research | Nov 2005 | 2,347 |
| 15 | Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedures Maurício G. C. Resende, Celso Carneiro Ribeiro · Kluwer Academic Publishers eBooks | 2 Feb 2006 | 2,331 |
| 16 | Ant colony optimization theory: A survey Marco Dorigo, Christian Blum · Theoretical Computer Science | 3 Aug 2005 | 2,314 |
| 17 | Cuckoo search algorithm: a metaheuristic approach to solve structural optimization problems Amir H. Gandomi, Xin‐She Yang, Amir H. Alavi · Engineering With Computers | 28 Jul 2011 | 2,271 |
| 18 | Branch-and-Price: Column Generation for Solving Huge Integer Programs Cynthia Barnhart, Ellis L. Johnson, George L. Nemhauser et al. · Operations Research | Jun 1998 | 2,225 |
| 19 | Ant colony optimization: a new meta-heuristic Marco Dorigo, Gianni A. Di | 20 Jan 2003 | 2,147 |
| 20 | The Lagrangian Relaxation Method for Solving Integer Programming Problems Marshall L. Fisher · Management Science | 1981 | 2,118 |
| 21 | Integer Programming Formulation of Traveling Salesman Problems Casey Miller, Albert William Tucker, R. A. Zemlin · Journal of the ACM | Oct 1960 | 2,038 |
| 22 | Branch-and-Bound Methods: A Survey Eugene L. Lawler, Derek Wood · Operations Research | Aug 1966 | 2,014 |
| 23 | THE MAXIMAL COVERING LOCATION PROBLEM Richard L. Church, CHARLES R. VELLE · Papers of the Regional Science Association | 1974 | 2,014 |
| 24 | Variable neighborhood search: Principles and applications Pierre Hansen, Nenad Mladenović · European Journal of Operational Research | May 2001 | 1,903 |
| 25 | Ant Colony Optimization Marco Dorigo, Mauro Birattari, Thomas Stützle · IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine | Nov 2006 | 1,878 |
| 26 | The Location of Emergency Service Facilities Constantine Toregas, Ralph W. Swain, Charles ReVelle et al. · Operations Research | Oct 1971 | 1,856 |
| 27 | Solving two-stage robust optimization problems using a column-and-constraint generation method Bo Zeng, Long Zhao · Operations Research Letters | 3 Jun 2013 | 1,827 |
| 28 | The vehicle routing problem: An overview of exact and approximate algorithms Gilbert Laporte · European Journal of Operational Research | Jun 1992 | 1,763 |
| 29 | The flying sidekick traveling salesman problem: Optimization of drone-assisted parcel delivery Chase C. Murray, Amanda Chu · Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies | 25 Mar 2015 | 1,722 |
| 30 | An effective implementation of the Lin–Kernighan traveling salesman heuristic Keld Helsgaun · European Journal of Operational Research | Oct 2000 | 1,648 |
| 31 | Flower Pollination Algorithm for Global Optimization Xin-She Yang · Lecture notes in computer science | 2012 | 1,624 |
| 32 | The Traveling-Salesman Problem and Minimum Spanning Trees Michael Held, Richard M. Karp · Operations Research | Dec 1970 | 1,456 |
| 33 | A general heuristic for vehicle routing problems David Pisinger, Stefan Røpke · Computers & Operations Research | 25 Oct 2005 | 1,429 |
| 34 | Ant colony optimization for continuous domains Krzysztof Socha, Marco Dorigo · European Journal of Operational Research | 4 Nov 2006 | 1,416 |
| 35 | Strategic facility location: A review Susan Hesse Owen, Mark S. Daskin · European Journal of Operational Research | Dec 1998 | 1,386 |
| 36 | Validation of subgradient optimization Michael Held, Philip Wolfe, Harlan P. Crowder · Mathematical Programming | Dec 1974 | 1,375 |
| 37 | Frequency assignment: Theory and applications William K. Hale · Proceedings of the IEEE | 1980 | 1,354 |
| 38 | Vehicle Routing Problems for Drone Delivery Kevin Dorling, Jordan Heinrichs, Geoffrey G. Messier et al. · IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Systems | 14 Jul 2016 | 1,343 |
| 39 | Complexity of vehicle routing and scheduling problems Jan Karel Lenstra, A. H. G. Rinnooy Kan · Networks | Jun 1981 | 1,324 |
| 40 | Ant colony optimization: Introduction and recent trends Christian Blum · Physics of Life Reviews | 22 Nov 2005 | 1,315 |
| 41 | The Electric Vehicle-Routing Problem with Time Windows and Recharging Stations Michael D. Schneider, A. Stenger, Dominik Goeke · Transportation Science | 6 Mar 2014 | 1,305 |
| 42 | Network Design and Transportation Planning: Models and Algorithms Thomas L. Magnanti, Richard T. Wong · Transportation Science | Feb 1984 | 1,303 |
| 43 | Hyper-heuristics: a survey of the state of the art Edmund K. Burke, Michel Gendreau, Matthew Hyde et al. · Journal of the Operational Research Society | 10 Jul 2013 | 1,277 |
| 44 | Container terminal operation and operations research - a classification and literature review Stefan Vo�, Robert Stahlbock, Dirk Steenken · OR Spectrum | 2004 | 1,270 |
| 45 | Staff scheduling and rostering: A review of applications, methods and models Andreas T Ernst, H. Jiang, Mohan Krishnamoorthy et al. · European Journal of Operational Research | 23 Apr 2003 | 1,267 |
| 46 | The vehicle routing problem: State of the art classification and review Kris Braekers, Katrien M. Ramaekers, Inneke Van Nieuwenhuyse · Computers & Industrial Engineering | 21 Dec 2015 | 1,258 |
| 47 | A review of dynamic vehicle routing problems Victor Pillac, Michel Gendreau, Christelle Guéret et al. · European Journal of Operational Research | 30 Aug 2012 | 1,257 |
| 48 | A shortest augmenting path algorithm for dense and sparse linear assignment problems R. Jonker, Anton Volgenant · Computing | Dec 1987 | 1,250 |
| 49 | A Tabu Search Heuristic for the Vehicle Routing Problem Michel Gendreau, Alain Hertz, Gilbert Laporte · PolyPublie (École Polytechnique de Montréal) | Oct 1994 | 1,249 |
| 50 | Humanitarian logistics in disaster relief operations Gyöngyi Kovács, Karen M. Spens · International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management | 15 Mar 2007 | 1,216 |
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