An Adaptive Variable Neighborhood Search Ant Colony Algorithm for Vehicle Routing Problem With Soft Time Windows.
Meiling HeZhixiu WeiXiaohui WuYongtao PengPublished in: IEEE Access (2021)
Keyphrases
- vehicle routing problem
- ant colony algorithm
- variable neighborhood search
- metaheuristic
- ant colony optimization
- tabu search
- global optimization
- traveling salesman problem
- ant colony
- routing problem
- benchmark instances
- vehicle routing
- neighborhood search
- particle swarm optimization
- hybrid metaheuristic
- mathematical model
- benchmark problems
- combinatorial optimization
- ant colony optimization algorithm
- optimization problems
- path relinking
- travel time
- memetic algorithm
- np hard
- combinatorial optimization problems
- simulated annealing
- bp neural network
- scatter search
- test instances
- knapsack problem
- swarm intelligence
- optimization method
- genetic algorithm
- search space
- scheduling problem
- search algorithm
- heuristic methods
- neural network
- special case
- lower bound