Journal article
An ant colony system (ACS) for vehicle routing problem with simultaneous delivery and pickup
Abstract
In this paper we use an ant colony system (ACS) algorithm to solve the vehicle routing problem with simultaneous delivery and pickup (VRPSDP) which is a combinatorial optimization problem. ACS is an algorithmic approach inspired by the foraging behavior of real ants. Artificial ants are used to construct a solution for the problem by using the pheromone information from previously generated solutions. The proposed ACS algorithm uses a …
Authors
Gajpal Y; Abad P
Journal
Computers & Operations Research, Vol. 36, No. 12, pp. 3215–3223
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
December 2009
DOI
10.1016/j.cor.2009.02.017
ISSN
0305-0548