Research Article

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

Table 1

Average of 30 executions per benchmark for calculation of Hamming distance for the Solomon’s benchmarks.

InstanceNND/SS1-1 and 2-2Hybrid

Type 1 (Hamming distance)
C1012029302836
C1021831223438
C1032120212631
C1042425232427
C1052123252932
C1062221242226
C1071819242024
C1082524292832
C1092325302930
R1013244394045
R1023842414549
R1033540434143
R1044143454748
R1053838394040
R1064140434646
R1074045424649
R1084346444547
R1093537414042
R1103942454649
R1113940434143
R1123639444345
RC1013936393842
RC1023637403944
RC1033537373941
RC1043434364040
RC1053941404145
RC1063534363838
RC1073234403840
RC1083435383739

Type 2 (Hamming distance)
C2013335363641
C2023535363945
C2033536424444
C2043839424146
C2053437404347
C2063234353742
C2073438404242
C2083640424046
R2015051545055
R2024950525257
R2035050515154
R2045658586060
R2055255585559
R2064952555155
R2074851545459
R2085557585261
R2095252535360
R2105051545658
R2114955575657
RC2014445494550
RC2024242454349
RC2034649535152
RC2044141444248
RC2054647494451
RC2064748515053
RC2074141434547
RC2084346475152