Study on Logistics Distribution Center Location Based on Max-Min Ant System

An algorithm based on Max-min ant system using an adaptive strategy of pheromone is proposed for logistics distribution center location.Inspired by the ability of ants to find the shortest path and cluster corpse,we cluster distribution nodes and distribution centers with emphasis on the lowest logistics costs.The existing logistics distribution model is expanded by adding management costs.Logistics distribution center location models based on the basic ant clustering algorithm and the improved ant clustering algorithm are simulated separately.The experimental results show that the improved ant clustering algorithm is better than the basic ant clustering algorithm in the ability of finding an optimized solution and the convergence speed when we solve large-scale logistics distribution center location problems.