Chris Groër

Ph.D. candidate, University of Maryland, Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computation Program

bullet My primary area of research is into heuristic and exact integer programming methods for the Vehicle Routing Problem and its variants.
bullet My advisor at the University of Maryland is Bruce Golden
bullet I first became interested in the VRP through my AMSC 663-664 project
bullet I have continued to work on several variants of the VRP: The Consistent VRP, The Balanced Billing Cycle VRP
bullet I am currently using Maryland's Deepthought High Performance Computing cluster to explore parallel solution methods for the VRP
bullet I eventually intend to release my C/C++ VRP code to other researchers
bullet Here are some VRP-related links that I have found useful
bullet Here is a set of benchmark problems for The Consistent VRP that are based on the Christofides & Eilon problems
bullet Here is a set of small (10-12 nodes) benchmark problems for The Consistent VRP that we solved to optimality using CPLEX
bullet Here is a fairly complete set of benchmarks for the classical VRP that I have found
                                                                                     

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