A new hybrid ant colony optimization algorithm for the vehicle routing problem.
Xiaoxia ZhangLixin TangPublished in: Pattern Recognit. Lett. (2009)
Keyphrases
- vehicle routing problem
- ant colony optimization algorithm
- traveling salesman problem
- ant colony optimization
- metaheuristic
- combinatorial optimization
- nature inspired
- vehicle routing
- routing problem
- vehicle routing problem with time windows
- hybrid metaheuristic
- tabu search
- convergence speed
- swarm intelligence
- multi depot
- travel time
- particle swarm optimization
- ant colony algorithm
- optimization problems
- crossover operator
- aco algorithm
- benchmark problems
- simulated annealing
- pick up and delivery
- genetic algorithm
- np hard
- search space
- search algorithm
- hybrid algorithm
- path relinking
- search strategies
- artificial neural networks
- neural network