This paper addresses the well-known traveling purchaser problem (TPP) considering
restrictions related to perishable food, which is called the traveling purchaser problem for …

In this paper, we propose a multi-vehicle clustered traveling purchaser problem
(MVCluTPP). Here, two types of procurement planning are proposed. In the first setup, the …

We explore a problem faced by agri-food e-commerce platforms in purchasing different,
perishable products and collecting them from multiple producers and delivering them to a …

This paper presents a facility location problem with capacitated multiservice facilities in
which the allocation of the users is based on their preferences. The problem arises from an …

This paper addresses the double traveling salesman problem with partial last‐in‐first‐out
(LIFO) loading constraints. A vehicle picks up items in the pickup area and loads them into …

In developing countries, rural and semi-urban markets remain open for a particular period of
time in a day, and items' availabilities and prices vary within the opening hours of a market …

This research proposes the use of metaheuristics for solving the Target Set Selection (TSS)
problem. This problem emerges in the context of influence maximization problems, in which …

Index tracking models build portfolios of limited size that replicate the performance of a
market index. As the size of the index grows, it becomes impractical to find an optimal …

The integrated vehicle routing and packing problem, considering three-dimensional loading
constraints (3L–CVRP), is categorized as an NP-hard problem because it is a generalization …

The decision of whether to collaborate with one or multiple sources is a crucial challenge in
the supply chain. This decision involves considering various criteria, including price and …