An ant colony algorithm for the multi-compartment vehicle routing problem.
Martin ReedAliki YiannakouRoxanne EveringPublished in: Appl. Soft Comput. (2014)
Keyphrases
- ant colony algorithm
- vehicle routing problem
- metaheuristic
- ant colony optimization
- ant colony
- global optimization
- improved ant colony algorithm
- routing problem
- mathematical model
- traveling salesman problem
- tabu search
- benchmark problems
- vehicle routing
- hybrid metaheuristic
- particle swarm optimization
- vehicle routing problem with time windows
- test instances
- travel time
- ant colony optimization algorithm
- np hard
- ant colonies
- pick up and delivery
- genetic algorithm
- knapsack problem
- optimization problems
- distribution network
- bp neural network
- search strategies
- swarm intelligence
- search methods
- optimization method
- simulated annealing
- scheduling problem
- variable neighborhood search
- evolutionary algorithm
- artificial neural networks
- logistics distribution
- search algorithm
- information retrieval