An ant colony optimization technique for solving min-max Multi-Depot Vehicle Routing Problem

Swarm and Evolutionary Computation

Volumn 13, Issue , 2013, Pages 63-73

  Venkata Narasimha, Koushik ^a   Kivelevitch, Elad ^a   Sharma, Balaji ^a   Kumar, Manish ^b  

^a University of Cincinnati   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

Ant colony optimization; Combinatorial optimization problems; Min max objective; Multi Depot Vehicle Routing Problem

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM'S PERFORMANCE; COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; MIN-MAX; MULTI-DEPOT VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEMS; NONDETERMINISTIC POLYNOMIAL; STATISTICAL EVALUATION; TIME-CRITICAL APPLICATIONS; VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEMS;

ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; MATLAB; NETWORK ROUTING; ROUTING ALGORITHMS; SALES; VEHICLES;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84889888857     PISSN: 22106502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.swevo.2013.05.005     Document Type: Article

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