A variable neighborhood search for flying sidekick traveling salesman problem

JC de Freitas, PHV Penna - International Transactions in …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The efficiency and dynamism of unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, have presented
substantial application opportunities in several industries in the last years. Notably, logistic …

Electric vehicle routing problem with flexible deliveries

MEH Sadati, V Akbari, B Çatay - International Journal of Production …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Growing concerns about the climate change have forced governments to initiate tighter
environmental regulations and tougher emission reduction targets, increasing the interest on …

An improved variable neighborhood search for bi-objective mixed-energy fleet vehicle routing problem

X Ren, H Huang, S Feng, G Liang - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2020 - Elsevier
With increasing emphasis on environmental protection, the green vehicle routing problem
has been a research hotspot. This paper investigates a mixed-energy fleet green vehicle …

The multi-trip autonomous mobile robot scheduling problem with time windows in a stochastic environment at smart hospitals

L Cheng, N Zhao, K Wu, Z Chen - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) play a crucial role in transportation and service tasks at
hospitals, contributing to enhanced efficiency and meeting medical demands. This paper …

Less is more approach: basic variable neighborhood search for the obnoxious p‐median problem

N Mladenović, A Alkandari, J Pei… - International …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The goal of the less is more approach (LIMA) for solving optimization problems that has
recently been proposed in Mladenović et al.(2016) is to find the minimum number of search …

A data model for collaborative manufacturing environments

B Andres, R Poler, R Sanchis - Computers in Industry, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper addresses the problem of information exchange required for collaborative
manufacturing planning processes at supply network levels. For a few years now, the …

Multi-period hub location problem with serial demands: A case study of humanitarian aids distribution in Lebanon

RN Monemi, S Gelareh, A Nagih, N Maculan… - … Research Part E …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, we address the problem of humanitarian aids distribution across refugee
camps in war-ridden areas from a network design perspective. We show that the problem …

A game‐theoretic approach for the location of terror response facilities with both disruption risk and hidden information

Q Li, M Li, J Gan, C Guo - International Transactions in …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, locating emergency response facilities has been drawing increasing attention with
the highly strategic nature of terrorist attacks. To this end, we present a game‐theoretic …

Heuristic feeder‐bus operation strategy considering weather information: a chance‐constrained model

Y Liu, H Xu, X Yu, J Zhou - International Transactions in …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, we present a heuristic strategy that makes use of weather information to
improve feeder‐bus operation. First, the Bayes' rule is adopted to establish the relationship …

The uncapacitated r‐allocation p‐hub center problem

J Brimberg, S Mišković, R Todosijević… - International …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, we propose the uncapacitated r‐allocation p‐hub center problem (UrApHCP),
which represents a generalization of both single and multiple allocation variants of the p …