Multiple Ant Colony Optimization for a Rich Vehicle Routing Problem: A Case Study.
Paola PellegriniDaniela FavarettoElena MorettiPublished in: KES (2) (2007)
Keyphrases
- ant colony optimization
- metaheuristic
- vehicle routing problem
- traveling salesman problem
- combinatorial optimization problems
- tabu search
- particle swarm optimization
- combinatorial optimization
- swarm intelligence
- simulated annealing
- scatter search
- genetic algorithm
- nature inspired
- ant colony
- ant colony optimization algorithm
- optimization problems
- aco algorithm
- optimal solution
- search space
- routing problem
- test instances
- variable neighborhood search
- travel time
- particle swarm optimization pso
- aco algorithms
- benchmark instances
- ant colonies
- path relinking
- hybrid algorithm
- search methods
- memetic algorithm
- ant colony algorithm
- artificial ants
- evolutionary algorithm
- fitness function
- hyper heuristics
- differential evolution
- minimum spanning tree
- pso algorithm