Reinforcement learning for logistics and supply chain management: Methodologies, state of the art, and future opportunities

Y Yan, AHF Chow, CP Ho, YH Kuo, Q Wu… - … Research Part E …, 2022 - Elsevier
With advances in technologies, data science techniques, and computing equipment, there
has been rapidly increasing interest in the applications of reinforcement learning (RL) to …

Opportunities for reinforcement learning in stochastic dynamic vehicle routing

FD Hildebrandt, BW Thomas, MW Ulmer - Computers & operations …, 2023 - Elsevier
There has been a paradigm-shift in urban logistic services in the last years; demand for real-
time, instant mobility and delivery services grows. This poses new challenges to logistic …

H-tsp: Hierarchically solving the large-scale traveling salesman problem

X Pan, Y Jin, Y Ding, M Feng, L Zhao, L Song… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - ojs.aaai.org
We propose an end-to-end learning framework based on hierarchical reinforcement
learning, called H-TSP, for addressing the large-scale Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) …

Hierarchical diffusion for offline decision making

W Li, X Wang, B Jin, H Zha - International Conference on …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Offline reinforcement learning typically introduces a hierarchical structure to solve the long-
horizon problem so as to address its thorny issue of variance accumulation. Problems of …

Large-scale dynamic scheduling for flexible job-shop with random arrivals of new jobs by hierarchical reinforcement learning

K Lei, P Guo, Y Wang, J Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As the intelligent manufacturing paradigm evolves, it is urgent to design a near real-time
decision-making framework for handling the uncertainty and complexity of production line …

A review on learning to solve combinatorial optimisation problems in manufacturing

C Zhang, Y Wu, Y Ma, W Song, Z Le… - IET Collaborative …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
An efficient manufacturing system is key to maintaining a healthy economy today. With the
rapid development of science and technology and the progress of human society, the …

Data-driven hospitals staff and resources allocation using agent-based simulation and deep reinforcement learning

T Lazebnik - Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2023 - Elsevier
Hospital staff and resources allocation (HSRA) is a critical challenge in healthcare systems,
as it involves balancing the demands of patients, the availability of resources, and the need …

Optimal layout planning for human robot collaborative assembly systems and visualization through immersive technologies

M Eswaran, A kumar Inkulu, K Tamilarasan… - Expert Systems with …, 2024 - Elsevier
The deployment of Industry 4.0 emerging technologies such as Augmented reality (AR),
Virtual reality (VR), and collaborative Robots enhances flexibility and precision in the …

Efficient neural neighborhood search for pickup and delivery problems

Y Ma, J Li, Z Cao, W Song, H Guo, Y Gong… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
We present an efficient Neural Neighborhood Search (N2S) approach for pickup and
delivery problems (PDPs). In specific, we design a powerful Synthesis Attention that allows …

A survey of dynamic pickup and delivery problems

J Cai, Q Zhu, Q Lin, L Ma, J Li, Z Ming - Neurocomputing, 2023 - Elsevier
Due to the ubiquitous real-world applications of logistics and supply chain management
over the past two decades, dynamic pickup and delivery problems (DPDPs), as a subclass …