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An Enhanced Ant Colony System for Solving Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Window

by Sandhya, Vijay Katiyar
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International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 73 - Number 12
Year of Publication: 2013
Authors: Sandhya, Vijay Katiyar
10.5120/12794-0080

Sandhya, Vijay Katiyar . An Enhanced Ant Colony System for Solving Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Window. International Journal of Computer Applications. 73, 12 ( July 2013), 27-31. DOI=10.5120/12794-0080

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author = { Sandhya, Vijay Katiyar },
title = { An Enhanced Ant Colony System for Solving Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Window },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { July 2013 },
volume = { 73 },
number = { 12 },
month = { July },
year = { 2013 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 27-31 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume73/number12/12794-0080/ },
doi = { 10.5120/12794-0080 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
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Abstract

Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Window (VRPTW), an extension of VRP, is a complex combinatorial problem having many real life applications. It can be described as the problem of minimizing the total route cost while satisfying the capacity and time window constraint. Ant Colony System (ACS) is a meta heuristic that is often applied to solve VRPTW. In this paper an attempt has been made to enhance the already existing ant colony system to solve the problem efficiently. Experimentation with the Solomon data sheet is performed and compared with best known results available in literature.

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Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Ant Colony Optimization Meta heuristics Time Windows Vehicle Routing Problem.

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