An Improved Ant Colony Algorithm for the Vehicle Routing Problem in Time-Dependent Networks.
Yongqiang LiuQing ChangHuagang XiongPublished in: IEICE Trans. Commun. (2011)
Keyphrases
- ant colony algorithm
- vehicle routing problem
- travel time
- ant colony optimization
- metaheuristic
- ant colony
- global optimization
- improved ant colony algorithm
- tabu search
- routing problem
- traveling salesman problem
- benchmark problems
- vehicle routing
- mathematical model
- vehicle routing problem with time windows
- combinatorial optimization
- particle swarm optimization
- ant colony optimization algorithm
- ant colonies
- hybrid metaheuristic
- distribution network
- multi depot
- np hard
- search strategies
- greedy randomized adaptive search procedure
- data structure
- simulated annealing
- optimization problems
- genetic algorithm
- vehicle routing problem with simultaneous
- nature inspired
- bp neural network
- objective function