An Experimental Study of the Ant Colony System for the Period Vehicle Routing Problem.
Ana Cristina MatosRui Carvalho OliveiraPublished in: ANTS Workshop (2004)
Keyphrases
- vehicle routing problem
- vehicle routing problem with time windows
- waste collection
- metaheuristic
- combinatorial optimization
- traveling salesman problem
- tabu search
- routing problem
- benchmark problems
- vehicle routing
- multi depot
- ant colony optimization
- travel time
- iterated local search
- benchmark instances
- test instances
- optimal solution
- simulated annealing
- variable neighborhood search
- np hard
- hybrid metaheuristic
- particle swarm optimization
- optimization problems
- scatter search
- vehicle routing problem with simultaneous
- knapsack problem
- greedy randomized adaptive search procedure
- neural network
- search algorithm
- search space
- neighborhood search
- hyper heuristics
- exact algorithms
- search methods