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Evolutionary Ant Colony Algorithm Using Firefly Based Transition for Solving Vehicle Routing Problems: EAFA for VRPs

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  • Rajeev Goel

    (Ambala College of Engg. and Applied Research, Ambala, India)

  • Raman Maini

    (Punjabi University, Patiala, India)

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Vehicle routing problems are a classical NP-hard optimization problem. In this article we propose an evolutionary optimization algorithm which adapts the advantages of ant colony optimization and firefly optimization to solve vehicle routing problem and its variants. Firefly optimization (FA) based transition rules and a novel pheromone shaking rule is proposed to escape local optima. Whereas the multi-modal nature of FA explores the search space, pheromone shaking avoids the stagnation of pheromones on the exploited paths. This is expected to improve working of an ant colony system (ACS). Performance of the proposed algorithm is compared with the performance of some of other currently available meta-heuristic approaches for solving vehicle routing problems (VRP) by applying it to certain standard benchmark datasets. Results show that the proposed approach is consistent and its convergence rate is faster. The results also demonstrate the superiority of the proposed approach over some of the other existing FA-based approaches for solving such type of discrete optimization problems.

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  • Rajeev Goel & Raman Maini, 2019. "Evolutionary Ant Colony Algorithm Using Firefly Based Transition for Solving Vehicle Routing Problems: EAFA for VRPs," International Journal of Swarm Intelligence Research (IJSIR), IGI Global, vol. 10(3), pages 46-60, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jsir00:v:10:y:2019:i:3:p:46-60
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    1. Paisarnvirosrak Nattapol & Rungrueang Phornprom, 2023. "Firefly Algorithm with Tabu Search to Solve the Vehicle Routing Problem with Minimized Fuel Emissions: Case Study of Canned Fruits Transport," LOGI – Scientific Journal on Transport and Logistics, Sciendo, vol. 14(1), pages 263-274, January.

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