An ant colony system (ACS) for vehicle routing problem with simultaneous delivery and pickup

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3215-3223

  Gajpal, Yuvraj ^a   Abad, Prakash ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ant colony; Metaheuristic; Simultaneous delivery and pickup; Vehicle routing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMIC APPROACH; ANT COLONY SYSTEM ALGORITHMS; ANT COLONY SYSTEMS; ANT-COLONY; ARTIFICIAL ANT; BENCHMARK-PROBLEM INSTANCES; COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; CONSTRUCTION RULES; FORAGING BEHAVIORS; LOCAL SEARCH; METAHEURISTIC; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; SIMULTANEOUS DELIVERY AND PICKUP; VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEMS;

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; HEURISTIC METHODS; ROUTING ALGORITHMS; VEHICLES;

VEHICLE ROUTING;

EID: 67349254472     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2009.02.017     Document Type: Article

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