Time dependent vehicle routing problem with a multi ant colony system.
Alberto V. DonatiRoberto MontemanniNorman CasagrandeAndrea Emilio RizzoliLuca Maria GambardellaPublished in: Eur. J. Oper. Res. (2008)
Keyphrases
- vehicle routing problem
- vehicle routing problem with time windows
- waste collection
- travel time
- metaheuristic
- combinatorial optimization
- tabu search
- vehicle routing
- traveling salesman problem
- routing problem
- hybrid metaheuristic
- benchmark problems
- test instances
- multi depot
- benchmark instances
- ant colony optimization
- particle swarm optimization
- optimization problems
- np hard
- logistics distribution
- simulated annealing
- knapsack problem
- memetic algorithm
- search space
- neighborhood search
- scatter search
- search strategies
- evolutionary algorithm
- nature inspired
- exact algorithms
- iterated local search
- branch and bound
- genetic algorithm
- vehicle routing problem with simultaneous