The Bees Algorithm for the Vehicle Routing Problem

05/18/2016

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by   Aish Fenton, et al.

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In this thesis we present a new algorithm for the Vehicle Routing Problem called the Enhanced Bees Algorithm. It is adapted from a fairly recent algorithm, the Bees Algorithm, which was developed for continuous optimisation problems. We show that the results obtained by the Enhanced Bees Algorithm are competitive with the best meta-heuristics available for the Vehicle Routing Problem (within 0.5 show that the algorithm has good runtime performance, producing results within 2 real world dispatch scenarios.