An ant colony algorithm for the multi-compartment vehicle routing problem

M Reed, A Yiannakou, R Evering - Applied Soft Computing, 2014 - Elsevier
We demonstrate the use of Ant Colony System (ACS) to solve the capacitated vehicle
routing problem associated with collection of recycling waste from households, treated as …

Effect of hybridizing biogeography-based optimization (BBO) technique with artificial immune algorithm (AIA) and ant colony optimization (ACO)

P Savsani, RL Jhala, V Savsani - Applied Soft Computing, 2014 - Elsevier
Hybridization in optimization methods plays a very vital role to make it effective and efficient.
Different optimization methods have different search tendency and it is always required to …

Solving the heterogeneous fixed fleet open vehicle routing problem by a combined metaheuristic algorithm

M Yousefikhoshbakht, F Didehvar… - International Journal of …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The vehicle routing problem (VRP) is a well-known combinatorial optimisation problem and
holds a central place in logistics management. Many exact, heuristic and metaheuristic …

Using the ant colony optimization algorithm for the capacitated vehicle routing problem

P Stodola, J Mazal, M Podhorec… - Proceedings of the 16th …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper deals with the application of the Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithm to
solve the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (CVRP). The first part presents the basic …

An efficient solution for the vrp by using a hybrid elite ant system

M Yousefikhoshbakht, F Didehvar… - International Journal of …, 2014 - univagora.ro
The vehicle routing problem (VRP) is a well-known NP-Hard problemin operation research
which has drawn enormous interest from many researchers duringthe last decades because …

求解车辆路径问题的人工蜂群算法

王志刚, 夏慧明 - 计算机工程与科学, 2014 - joces.nudt.edu.cn
采用人工蜂群算法对车辆路径问题进行求解, 给出食物源的自然数编码方法,
并采用邻域倒位方法生成候选食物源. 应用算法求解了多个车辆路径问题的实例 …

Use of ant colony system in solving vehicle routing problem with time window constraints

S Bansal, R Goel, C Mohan - … of the Second International Conference on …, 2014 - Springer
Vehicle routing problem with time window constraints (VRPTW) is an extension of the
original vehicle routing problem (VRP). It is a well-known NP-hard problem which has …

Applying tabu search in finding an efficient solution for the OVRP

AR Hedar, M Abdallah - Int. J. Open Problems Compt. Math, 2014 - platform.almanhal.com
In the open vehicle routing problem (OVRP), the target would be to reduce the amount of
vehicles after reducing the whole distance (or time) travelled. Every route begins at the …

從蟻群演算法到蟻群行為之實證研究

黃允成, 周家漢, 朱育婕, 孫于婷 - 商業現代化學刊, 2014 - airitilibrary.com
蟻群演算法源自1991 年, 由Dorgio 等人根據螞蟻依循費洛蒙之覓食行為所建立之啟發式演算法,
自提出後便廣泛地應用於各領域之最佳化問題, 然而自然界中之螞蟻是否確實遵循此規則則尚無 …

[PDF][PDF] An Efficient Solution for the Vehicle Routing Problem by Using a Hybrid Elite Ant System

M Yousefikhoshbakht, F Didehvar… - International Journal of …, 2014 - researchgate.net
The vehicle routing problem (VRP) is a well-known NP-Hard problem in operation research
which has drawn enormous interest from many researchers during the last decades …