Ant colony optimization techniques for the vehicle routing problem.
John E. BellPatrick R. McMullenPublished in: Adv. Eng. Informatics (2004)
Keyphrases
- vehicle routing problem
- ant colony
- ant colony optimization
- metaheuristic
- optimization problems
- traveling salesman problem
- tabu search
- ant colony algorithm
- optimisation algorithm
- benchmark problems
- genetic algorithm
- combinatorial optimization
- vehicle routing
- vehicle routing problem with time windows
- routing problem
- particle swarm optimization
- travel time
- test instances
- hybrid metaheuristic
- ant colony optimization algorithm
- swarm intelligence
- simulated annealing
- memetic algorithm
- multi depot
- greedy randomized adaptive search procedure
- path relinking
- nature inspired
- ant colonies
- np hard
- evolutionary algorithm
- optimization methods
- scatter search
- aco algorithm
- search space
- optimal solution
- variable neighborhood search
- knapsack problem
- particle swarm optimization pso
- optimization method
- objective function