Research Article

Hybrid Genetic Algorithms for the Asymmetric Distance-Constrained Vehicle Routing Problem

Table 6

Description of different notations used in the tables that contain results.

NotationDescription

INSTName of a TSPLIB instance
OptOptimal solution
ASAverage solution in 20 runs
SDStandard deviation of obtained solutions
ATAverage computational time in seconds in 20 runs
AIAverage percentage of improvement of average solution obtained by a HGA over average solution obtained by simple GA
MaxiThe maximum distance traveled by a vehicle among m vehicles in a route