Hybridized ant colony algorithm for the Multi Compartment Vehicle Routing Problem.
Mohamed M. S. AbdulkaderYuvraj GajpalTarek Y. ElMekkawyPublished in: Appl. Soft Comput. (2015)
Keyphrases
- ant colony algorithm
- vehicle routing problem
- particle swarm optimization
- ant colony optimization
- global optimization
- metaheuristic
- memetic algorithm
- improved ant colony algorithm
- ant colony
- tabu search
- traveling salesman problem
- routing problem
- benchmark problems
- combinatorial optimization
- mathematical model
- vehicle routing
- vehicle routing problem with time windows
- np hard
- ant colony optimization algorithm
- multi depot
- hybrid metaheuristic
- swarm intelligence
- pso algorithm
- job shop scheduling problem
- ant colonies
- travel time
- genetic algorithm
- distribution network
- simulated annealing
- particle swarm
- search strategies
- pick up and delivery
- optimization problems
- variable neighborhood search
- greedy randomized adaptive search procedure
- search procedure
- nature inspired
- initial population
- search methods
- evolutionary algorithm
- artificial neural networks
- optimal solution