Applying a Hybrid Ant Colony System to the Vehicle Routing Problem.
Chia-Ho ChenChing-Jung TingPei-Chann ChangPublished in: ICCSA (4) (2005)
Keyphrases
- vehicle routing problem
- vehicle routing problem with time windows
- metaheuristic
- waste collection
- combinatorial optimization
- greedy randomized adaptive search procedure
- traveling salesman problem
- vehicle routing
- tabu search
- routing problem
- multi depot
- particle swarm optimization
- ant colony optimization
- test instances
- benchmark problems
- hybrid metaheuristic
- memetic algorithm
- benchmark instances
- np hard
- simulated annealing
- travel time
- optimization problems
- knapsack problem
- iterated local search
- genetic algorithm
- search space
- variable neighborhood search
- scatter search
- search strategies
- path relinking
- neighborhood search
- logistics distribution
- approximation algorithms
- retrieval effectiveness
- pick up and delivery
- constraint satisfaction problems
- cost function
- vehicle routing problem with simultaneous