Abstract:Vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRPTW) is a special kind of vehicle routing with adding time windows constraints and has a variety of applications in logistics. Many researchers have attacked the VRPTW by approximate solutions. Ant colony optimization (ACO) is a classical method to solve the VRPTW problem but the constraints of VRPTW are not used to consider customer selection. Most ACO-based optimization algorithms can suffer from the complexity of the VRPTW such as trapping in local optimum. In th… Show more
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