The home health care routing and scheduling problem comprises the assignment and
routing of a set of home care visits over the duration of a week. These services allow patients …

This paper deals with the Pollution-Routing Problem (PRP), a Vehicle Routing Problem
(VRP) with environmental considerations, recently introduced in the literature by Bektaş and …

4.1▪ Introduction In recent years, several sophisticated mathematical programming
decomposition algorithms have been put forward for the solution of the VRP. Yet, despite …

Demographic change towards an ever aging population entails an increasing demand for
specialized transportation systems to complement the traditional public means of …

This paper introduces a special vehicle routing problem, ie the cumulative capacitated
vehicle routing problem with time-window constraints (Cum-CVRPTW). The problem can be …

This paper discusses the use of probabilistic or randomized algorithms for solving vehicle
routing problems with non-smooth objective functions. Our approach employs non-uniform …

The contribution of infeasible solutions in heuristic searches for vehicle routing problems
(VRP) is not a subject of consensus in the metaheuristics community. Infeasible solutions …

We introduce pattern injection local search (PILS), an optimization strategy that uses pattern
mining to explore high-order local-search neighborhoods, and illustrate its application on …

Inpatient beds represent one of the most critical resources in hospitals, of which the
availability has been under increasing pressure in China. Such beds are usually to be either …

The harmony search algorithm has been proven to be an effective optimization method for
solving diverse optimization problems. However, due to its slow convergence, the …