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 …

Recently, a taxonomic review of the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) literature published
between 2009 and June 2015 stated that most of the surveyed articles use metaheuristics …

Due to the diversity and the different distribution conditions of agricultural products, split
delivery plays an important role in the last mile distribution of agricultural products …

Over the past decades, the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) and its variants have grown ever
more popular in the academic literature. Yet, the problem characteristics and assumptions …

With the rapid development of logistics industry, vehicle scheduling is the key to the
optimization of transportation links. Vehicle transportation route planning is becoming more …

Learning how to automatically solve optimization problems has the potential to provide the
next big leap in optimization technology. The performance of automatically learned …

The key idea underlying iterated local search is to focus the search not on the full space of
all candidate solutions but on the solutions that are returned by some underlying algorithm …

Abstract Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) is an Np-Hard problem, for which various
solutions have been offered so far. Using the Harris Hawk Optimization (HHO) algorithm, this …

An efficient manufacturing system is key to maintaining a healthy economy today. With the
rapid development of science and technology and the progress of human society, the …

Optimization of collaborative multi-depot pickup and delivery logistics networks (CMDPDLN)
with split loads and time windows involves a customer demand splitting strategy and a multi …