Review on Vehicle Routing Problem using Ant Colony Optimization
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Abstract
Vehicle routing problem (VRP) concerns the transport of items from a depot to its number of customers using group of vehicles. VRP
needs method to solve problem in terms of best route to service the customers. The solution must ensure that all the customer s are served under
the operational constraints and minimizing the overall cost. The solution can be obtained using one of the metaheuristic techniques Ant Colony
Optimization (ACO). In Ant colony optimization a colony of artificial ants altogether find good solutions to difficult discrete optimization
problems. It is not possible for each ant to find a solution to the problem under consideration which is probably a poor one, good-quality
solutions can only emerge only if there is collective interaction among the ants. They act concurrently and independently and there, by their
decision making process, finds the most efficient route. ACO helps in finding the best optimal path in vehicle routing as well. This paper
presents a review on the application of ACO for solving VRP. The paper is mainly concerned with Capacitated VRP (CVRP) to explain the
ACO optimization of VPR problem.
Keywords: VRP, ACO, Pheromone, metaheuristic, CVRP
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