TY - GEN
T1 - Ant colony algorithms for the dynamic vehicle routing problem with time windows
AU - Van Veen, Barry
AU - Emmerich, Michael
AU - Yang, Zhiwei
AU - Bäck, Thomas
AU - Kok, Joost
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - The Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows relates to frequently occuring real world problems in logistics. Much work has been done on solving static routing problems but solving the dynamic variants has not been given an equal amount of attention, while these are even more relevant to most companies in logistics and transportation. In this work an Ant Colony Optimization algorithm for solving the Dynamic Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows is proposed. Customers and time windows are inserted during the working day and need to be integrated in partially committed solutions. Results are presented on a benchmark that generalizes Solomon's classical benchmark with varying degrees of dynamicity and different variants, including pheromone preservation and the min-max ant system.
AB - The Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows relates to frequently occuring real world problems in logistics. Much work has been done on solving static routing problems but solving the dynamic variants has not been given an equal amount of attention, while these are even more relevant to most companies in logistics and transportation. In this work an Ant Colony Optimization algorithm for solving the Dynamic Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows is proposed. Customers and time windows are inserted during the working day and need to be integrated in partially committed solutions. Results are presented on a benchmark that generalizes Solomon's classical benchmark with varying degrees of dynamicity and different variants, including pheromone preservation and the min-max ant system.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84885821990&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-38622-0_1
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-38622-0_1
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84885821990
SN - 9783642386213
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 1
EP - 10
BT - Natural and Artificial Computation in Engineering and Medical Applications - 5th International Work-Conference on the Interplay Between Natural and Artificial Computation, IWINAC 2013, Proceedings
T2 - 5th International Work-Conference on the Interplay Between Natural and Artificial Computation, IWINAC 2013
Y2 - 10 June 2013 through 14 June 2013
ER -