Bee-Inspired Algorithms Applied to Vehicle Routing Problems: A Survey and a Proposal

Vehicle routing problems constitute a class of combinatorial optimization tasks that search for optimal routes (e.g., minimal cost routes) for one or more vehicles to attend a set of nodes (e.g., cities or customers). Finding the optimal solution to vehicle routing tasks is an NP-hard problem, meani...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Thiago A. S. Masutti, Leandro N. de Castro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2017-01-01
Series:Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/3046830