A Hybrid Clustered Ant Colony Optimization Approach for the Hierarchical Multi-Switch Multi-Echelon Vehicle Routing Problem with Service Times.
Marduch TadarosNikolaos A. KyriakakisPublished in: Comput. Ind. Eng. (2024)
Keyphrases
- vehicle routing problem
- ant colony optimization
- metaheuristic
- service times
- traveling salesman problem
- tabu search
- steady state
- combinatorial optimization problems
- particle swarm optimization
- simulated annealing
- swarm intelligence
- optimization problems
- search space
- routing problem
- combinatorial optimization
- scatter search
- test instances
- genetic algorithm
- particle swarm optimization pso
- aco algorithm
- nature inspired
- queue length
- optimal solution
- variable neighborhood search
- random variables
- ant colony optimization algorithm
- ant colony algorithm
- single server
- path relinking
- hybrid algorithm
- benchmark problems
- queueing networks
- ant colonies
- markov chain
- call center
- knapsack problem
- arrival rate
- scheduling problem
- state space
- evolutionary algorithm
- artificial neural networks
- objective function