Abstract The Orienteering Problem (OP) has received a lot of attention in the past few
decades. The OP is a routing problem in which the goal is to determine a subset of nodes to …

The tourism sector represents an opportunity for economic growth in countries with tourism
potential. However, new trends in global tourism require efficiency in tourism supply chain …

The tourist trip design problem (TTDP) refers to a route-planning problem for tourists
interested in visiting multiple points of interest (POIs). TTDP solvers derive daily tourist tours …

A brilliant treatment of a knotty problem in computing. This volume contains chapters written
by reputable researchers and provides the state of the art in theory and algorithms for the …

In the team orienteering problem, start and end points are specified along with other
locations which have associated scores. Given a fixed amount of time for each of the M …

Traveling salesman problems with profits (TSPs with profits) are a generalization of the
traveling salesman problem (TSP), where it is not necessary to visit all vertices. A profit is …

A personalised electronic tourist guide assists tourists in planning and enjoying their trip.
The planning problem that needs to be solved, in real-time, can be modelled as a team …

The need for efficient monitoring of spatio-temporal dynamics in large environmental
applications, such as the water quality monitoring in rivers and lakes, motivates the use of …

The vehicle routing problem with multiple use of vehicles is a variant of the classical vehicle
routing problem. It arises when each vehicle performs several routes during the workday …

10.1▪ Introduction The key characteristic of the class of Vehicle Routing Problems with Profits
(VRPPs) is that, contrary to what happens for the most classical vehicle routing problems …