Multi-ant colony system (MACS) for a vehicle routing problem with backhauls.
Yuvraj GajpalPrakash L. AbadPublished in: Eur. J. Oper. Res. (2009)
Keyphrases
- vehicle routing problem
- vehicle routing problem with time windows
- waste collection
- metaheuristic
- combinatorial optimization
- traveling salesman problem
- tabu search
- multi depot
- benchmark problems
- vehicle routing
- test instances
- routing problem
- travel time
- benchmark instances
- hybrid metaheuristic
- simulated annealing
- ant colony optimization
- memetic algorithm
- np hard
- scatter search
- optimization problems
- logistics distribution
- genetic algorithm
- path relinking
- search methods
- search space
- neural network
- variable neighborhood search
- optimal solution
- vehicle routing problem with simultaneous