Semantic micro-services model for vehicle routing using ant colony optimization

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new model of vehicle routing based on micro services using the principle of selection and composition of paths. In this model each micro service is responsible for a road resource, a step in the driver's journey, implementing a specific objective of the road course. The micro services are deployed in a cloud architecture in multiple instances according to a system of increase in load and fault tolerance. Drivers requests are sent to a proxy micro-service, with abstract structures of road courses represented by oriented graphs. The proxy micro-service is responsible for analyzing the request to determine the driver's profile and its context in the journey in order to select the micro-service responsible for providing information on the most appropriate road resource. The method of meta-heuristic optimization of road courses, used in the proposed approach, is based on the ant colony algorithm, or we will describe an adaptation of this optimization method to propose to the driver, at each stage of the journey, the most optimal resource to exploit.