An Improved Ant Colony Algorithm to Solve Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows.
Yunfei YiXiaodong LinKang ShengYongle CaiPublished in: ICIC (1) (2015)
Keyphrases
- ant colony algorithm
- vehicle routing problem with time windows
- global optimization
- ant colony
- improved ant colony algorithm
- mathematical model
- waste collection
- ant colony optimization
- distribution network
- routing problem
- vehicle routing problem
- column generation
- bp neural network
- exact algorithms
- genetic algorithm
- integer programming
- benchmark problems
- metaheuristic
- special case