An improved ant colony optimization and its application to vehicle routing problem with time windows.
Qiulei DingXiangpei HuLijun SunYunzeng WangPublished in: Neurocomputing (2012)
Keyphrases
- ant colony optimization
- vehicle routing problem with time windows
- metaheuristic
- vehicle routing problem
- traveling salesman problem
- swarm intelligence
- hyper heuristics
- ant colony
- particle swarm optimization
- aco algorithm
- routing problem
- combinatorial optimization problems
- valid inequalities
- exact algorithms
- benchmark problems
- aco algorithms
- integer programming
- column generation
- ant colonies
- genetic algorithm
- tabu search
- artificial ants
- simulated annealing
- path relinking
- optimal solution
- memetic algorithm
- knapsack problem
- search methods
- global optimization
- special case
- search space
- neural network