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Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles"A Combining Heuristic Algorithm for the Multi-depot Vehicle Routing Problem with Inter-Depot Routes" by Tong Zhen and Qiuwen Zhang in the Proceedings of the 2009 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, April 2009, pp. 436-439 After careful and considered review of the content and authorship of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE's Publication Principles. This paper contains significant portions of original text from the paper cited below. The original text was copied without attribution (including appropriate references to the original author(s) and/or paper title) and without permission. Due to the nature of this violation, reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper, and future references should be made to the following article:"The Multi-depot Vehicle Routing Problem with Inter-depot Routes"by Benoit Crevier, Jean-Francois Cordeau, and Gilbert Laporte in European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 176, Issue 2, January 2007, pp. 756-773