Ant Colony Algorithm for Multiple-Depot Vehicle Routing Problem with Shortest Finish Time.
Jianhua MaJie YuanPublished in: CETS (2010)
Keyphrases
- vehicle routing problem
- ant colony algorithm
- metaheuristic
- ant colony optimization
- tabu search
- vehicle routing problem with time windows
- improved ant colony algorithm
- routing problem
- ant colony
- vehicle routing
- global optimization
- benchmark problems
- traveling salesman problem
- test instances
- particle swarm optimization
- travel time
- hybrid metaheuristic
- mathematical model
- np hard
- combinatorial optimization
- logistics distribution
- ant colony optimization algorithm
- pick up and delivery
- multi depot
- hybrid algorithm
- knapsack problem
- shortest path
- distribution network
- variable neighborhood search
- ant colonies
- simulated annealing
- search space
- bp neural network
- constraint satisfaction
- optimization problems
- special case
- learning algorithm
- genetic algorithm