World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, International Journal of Computer, Electrical, Automation, Control and Information Engineering · 2007 · 15 citations · 12 references
ComputingTransportation PlanningTransportTransportationTransportation EngineeringIntelligent AgentsMulti-agent SystemsRoute PlanningRoutingRouting AlgorithmsTransportation ProblemsAgent-based OptimizationRouting ProblemsTransportation SimulationVehicle RoutingVehicle Routing Problems
The paper proposes and validates a new method of solving instances of the vehicle routing problem (VRP). The approach is based on a multiple agent system paradigm. The paper contains the VRP formulation, an overview of the multiple agent environment used and a description of the proposed implementation. The approach is validated experimentally. The experiment plan and the discussion of experiment results follow.
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