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 …

Tourism activities are typically group-oriented, and the preferences and goals of group
members may completely differ or even conflict with one another. Considering the limitations …

Urban tourism is a worldwide form of tourism and is one of the most important social and
economic impetus for urban development. The urban tourism market has been increasingly …

The scheduling problem of an Agile Earth Observation Satellite is to schedule a subset of
weighted observation tasks with each a specific “profit” in order to maximize the total …

This paper addresses the time dependent orienteering problem with time windows and
service time dependent profits (TDOPTW-STP). In the TDOPTW-STP, each vertex is …

This paper introduces and solves the joint maintenance and orienteering problem with an
application to offshore wind farms. The quest for sustainable energy production is fueling the …

Unsuccessful delivery attempts, or failed hits, are still a recurring problem in the fulfillment of
e-commerce orders to private customers. In this paper, we consider a parcel delivery …

A substantial transformation has occurred in tourist behavior in the postmodern tourism era,
where the tourism market is dominated by the demand for tailored experiences. Therefore …

We present a unifying framework for Selective Routing Problems (SRPs) through a
systematic analysis. The common goal in SRPs is to determine an optimal vehicle route to …

This paper studies a multi-trip routing problem of a shuttle fleet to transport blood units from
collection sites to a blood center. In this problem, the blood units intended to produce …