Student:	Yeşim Yeginoğlu
Supervisor:	Yrd. Doç. Dr. Orhan Kesemen
Department:	İstatistik ve Bilgisayar Bilimleri (İstatistik)
Institution:	Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences
University:	Karadeniz Technical University Turkey

Title of the Thesis:	DETERMINING THE LOCATION OF DISTRIBUTION POINTS ON HIGHWAYS USING ARTIFICIAL BEE COLONY ALGORITHM
Level:	M.Sc.
Acceptance Date:	13/6/2014
Number of Pages:	70
Registration Number:	i2799

Summary:

Today, when it comes to increasing consumption based on population, importance of

distribution centers for businesses like grocery stores, shops is increasing day by day. In this

study it is determined the places of distribution center of 30 groceries in order to procure the

products in Kalkınma and Üniversite quarters in Trabzon city .This study has been occurred

by considering that distribution centers are not only on specific points but also entire main

roads directions. Occurring distribution centers on the roads between groceries enable to

minimize both loss of time & transportation costs and easily transportation to a distribution

center for more than one groceries. In addition, if the distribution centers are close to

groceries, loss of time and environmental pollution caused by product carrying vehicles will

be reduced.

The roads between groceries are determined by line segments. Roads are defined by the

conjunction of separated line segments in two-dimensioned space. Present optimization

methods research in area but, in this study it is required different approach because of the

limitation about lines. For this reason, artificial bee algorithm has been improved based on

present problem.

Key Words: Travelling Salesman Problem, Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm, Distribution

Center.