Ant_VRP: ant-colony-based meta-heuristic algorithm to solve the vehicle routing problem.
Majid Nikougoftar NateghAli Asghar Rahmani HosseinabadiValentina Emilia BalasPublished in: Int. J. Adv. Intell. Paradigms (2018)
Keyphrases
- vehicle routing problem
- ant colony
- metaheuristic
- ant colony optimization
- meta heuristic algorithm
- harmony search
- tabu search
- simulated annealing
- genetic algorithm
- traveling salesman problem
- ant colony algorithm
- optimization problems
- routing problem
- optimisation algorithm
- vehicle routing problem with time windows
- vehicle routing
- search space
- swarm intelligence
- combinatorial optimization
- ant colonies
- particle swarm optimization
- travel time
- multi depot
- harmony search algorithm
- optimization method
- solution space
- path relinking
- optimal solution
- benchmark problems
- np hard
- search methods
- logistics distribution
- aco algorithm
- nature inspired
- memetic algorithm
- pheromone trails
- ant colony optimisation
- hybrid algorithm
- particle swarm optimization pso
- evolutionary algorithm
- knapsack problem
- greedy randomized adaptive search procedure
- global optimization
- search strategies
- fitness function
- simulated annealing algorithm
- test problems
- pick up and delivery
- lower bound
- search algorithm