A hybrid algorithm between the ant system and the harmonic search for solving the vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRP-TW).
Edwin Montes-OrozcoRomán Anselmo Mora GutiérrezJavier Ramírez-RodríguezPublished in: Int. J. Comb. Optim. Probl. Informatics (2017)
Keyphrases
- vehicle routing problem with time windows
- hybrid algorithm
- vehicle routing problem
- tabu search
- metaheuristic
- ant colony optimization
- simulated annealing
- waste collection
- search heuristics
- particle swarm optimization
- combinatorial optimization
- hyper heuristics
- search procedure
- benchmark problems
- multi depot
- search space
- search algorithm
- routing problem
- exact algorithms
- search methods
- column generation
- traveling salesman problem
- particle swarm optimization pso
- integer programming
- differential evolution
- vehicle routing
- optimal solution
- search strategies
- search strategy
- optimization method
- genetic algorithm
- valid inequalities
- evolutionary algorithm
- combinatorial optimization problems
- branch and bound
- imperialist competitive algorithm