diff --git a/jsprit-core/src/main/java/algorithms/GreedySchrimpfFactory.java b/jsprit-core/src/main/java/algorithms/GreedySchrimpfFactory.java
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+/*******************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (C) 2013 Stefan Schroeder
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+ * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
+ * of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+ * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
+ *
+ * Contributors:
+ * Stefan Schroeder - initial API and implementation
+ ******************************************************************************/
+package algorithms;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.net.MalformedURLException;
+import java.net.URL;
+
+import util.Resource;
+
+
+
+import basics.VehicleRoutingAlgorithm;
+import basics.VehicleRoutingProblem;
+import basics.io.AlgorithmConfig;
+import basics.io.AlgorithmConfigXmlReader;
+
+
+/**
+ * Factory that creates the {@link VehicleRoutingAlgorithm} as proposed by Schrimpf et al., 2000 with the following parameters:
+ *
+ *
+ * R&R_random (prob=0.5, F=0.5);
+ * R&R_radial (prob=0.5, F=0.3);
+ * threshold-accepting with exponentialDecayFunction (alpha=0.1, warmup-iterations=100);
+ * nuOfIterations=2000
+ *
+ *
Gerhard Schrimpf, Johannes Schneider, Hermann Stamm- Wilbrandt, and Gunter Dueck.
+ * Record breaking optimization results using the ruin and recreate principle.
+ * Journal of Computational Physics, 159(2):139 – 171, 2000. ISSN 0021-9991. doi: 10.1006/jcph.1999. 6413.
+ * URL http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/ pii/S0021999199964136
+ *
+ *
algorithm-xml-config is available at src/main/resources/schrimpf.xml.
+ *
+ * @author stefan schroeder
+ *
+ */
+public class GreedySchrimpfFactory {
+
+ /**
+ * Creates the {@link VehicleRoutingAlgorithm}.
+ *
+ * @param vrp
+ * @return algorithm
+ */
+ public VehicleRoutingAlgorithm createAlgorithm(VehicleRoutingProblem vrp){
+ AlgorithmConfig algorithmConfig = new AlgorithmConfig();
+ URL resource = Resource.getAsURL("greedySchrimpf.xml");
+ new AlgorithmConfigXmlReader(algorithmConfig).read(resource.getPath());
+ return VehicleRoutingAlgorithms.createAlgorithm(vrp, algorithmConfig);
+ }
+
+
+
+}
diff --git a/jsprit-core/src/main/resources/greedySchrimpf.xml b/jsprit-core/src/main/resources/greedySchrimpf.xml
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+
+
+
+
+ 2000
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ 1
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ 0.5
+
+
+
+
+
+ 0.5
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ 0.3
+
+
+
+
+
+ 0.5
+
+
+
+
+
+
+