An Experimental Study of the Ant Colony System for the Period Vehicle Routing Problem

In this paper, a new Ant System approach to the Period Vehicle Routing Problem (PVRP) is presented. In PVRP, visit days have to be assigned to customers in order to find efficient routes over the period. We suggest a new technique for defining the initial solution and a novel strategy to update the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Matos, Ana Cristina (author)
Other Authors: Oliveira, Rui Carvalho (author)
Format: bookPart
Language:eng
Published: 2017
Subjects:
VRP
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.19/4178
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.ipv.pt:10400.19/4178