The scheduling of deliveries and the routing of vehicles are of great importance for supply
chain operations, as both determine to a great extent the distribution costs, as well as …

Transportation planning has been established as a key topic in the literature and social
production practices. An increasing number of researchers are studying vehicle routing …

Abstract The Firefly Algorithm (FA) is a highly efficient population-based optimization
technique developed by mimicking the flashing behavior of fireflies when mating. This article …

The “factory-in-a-box” concept involves assembling production modules (ie, factories) in
containers and transporting the containers to different customer locations. Such a concept …

Vehicular social networking is an emerging application of the Internet of Vehicles (IoV)
which aims to achieve seamless integration of vehicular networks and social networks …

The capacitated vehicle routing problem (CVRP) is a classical combinatorial optimization
problem, which has received much attention due to its main challenges as distribution …

Traffic congestion has become one of the most serious contemporary city issues as it leads
to unnecessary high energy consumption, air pollution and extra traveling time. During the …

Firefly algorithm (FA) is one of the popular algorithms of Swarm Intelligence domain. The
literature has expanded significantly in the past few years. This paper provides a timely …

The capacitated vehicle routing problem (CVRP) is one of the commonly studied issues
today. It belongs to the class of NP-hard problems and has a high time complexity …

Predicting crop yield is an important issue for farmers. Food security is important for decision-
makers. The agriculture industry can more accurately supply human demand for food if the …