Research Article

Feasible Initial Population with Genetic Diversity for a Population-Based Algorithm Applied to the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows

Figure 5

Proposed methodology for calculation of Hamming distance between two feasible individuals for the VRPTW.
(a) Hamming distance: 0
(b) Hamming distance: 1
(c) Hamming distance: 2
(d) Hamming distance: 3
(e) Hamming distance: 4