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The capacitated vehicle routing problem (CVRP) is one of the elemental problems in supply chain management. The objective of CVRP is to deliver a set of customers with known demands on minimum-cost vehicle routes originating and terminating at a delivery depot. CVRP is a difficult combinatorial problem, since it contains both the bin packing problem and the traveling salesperson problem as special...