An improved ant colony optimization for vehicle routing problem.
Bin YuZhongzhen YangBaozhen YaoPublished in: Eur. J. Oper. Res. (2009)
Keyphrases
- vehicle routing problem
- ant colony optimization
- metaheuristic
- traveling salesman problem
- tabu search
- particle swarm optimization
- combinatorial optimization problems
- optimization problems
- routing problem
- swarm intelligence
- ant colony
- combinatorial optimization
- scatter search
- benchmark instances
- simulated annealing
- path relinking
- aco algorithm
- ant colony optimization algorithm
- genetic algorithm
- nature inspired
- search space
- ant colony algorithm
- memetic algorithm
- test instances
- optimal solution
- travel time
- variable neighborhood search
- artificial ants
- ant colonies
- aco algorithms
- particle swarm optimization pso
- benchmark problems
- hybrid algorithm
- evolutionary algorithm
- minimum spanning tree
- knapsack problem
- vehicle routing problem with simultaneous
- job shop scheduling problem
- search methods
- search algorithm