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Bräysy, O., Berger, J., Barkaoui, M. and Dullaert, W. (2003). A Threshold Accepting Metaheuristic for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows European Journal of Operational Research, 11:369--387.

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    European Journal of Operational Research
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Threshold Accepting, a variant of Simulated Annealing, is applied for the first time to a set of 356 benchmark instances for the Vehicle Routing with Time Windows. The Threshold Accepting metaheuristic is used to improve upon results obtained with a recent parallel genetic algorithm and a multi-start local search to illustrate its value as a post-processor. The Threshold Accepting metaheuristic is shown to be a fast and versatile post- processor that can be imposed upon a variety of heuristic or metaheuristic approaches for vehicle routing to get better results in both theoretical and practical applications.