Solving the Capacitated Location-Routing Problem by a Cooperative Lagrangean Relaxation-Granular Tabu Search Heuristic - Prins, Christian; Prodhon, Caroline; Ruiz, Angel; Soriano, Patrick; Wolfler Calvo, Roberto (Transportation science, 2007)
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