Swarm intelligence and nature inspired algorithms for solving vehicle routing problems: a survey

T Stamadianos, A Taxidou, M Marinaki… - Operational Research, 2024 - Springer
Vehicle routing problem (VRP) is a classic NP-hard optimization problem. It is generally
accepted that an optimized routing scheme can cause huge difference in the cost in all …

Victoria Amazonica Optimization (VAO): an algorithm inspired by the giant water Lily Plant

SMH Mousavi - arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.08070, 2023 - arxiv.org
The Victoria Amazonica plant, often known as the Giant Water Lily, has the largest floating
spherical leaf in the world, with a maximum leaf diameter of 3 meters. It spreads its leaves by …

A discrete bat algorithm for the rich vehicle routing problem

S Delalić, E Žunić, A Alihodžić… - 2021 44th International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The vehicle routing problem is one of the most complex problems in the field of
combinatorial optimization. Creating optimal routes leads to timely delivery of orders to end …

A Two-Phase Approach to Evaluate and Optimize an Interlibrary Loan Service: The Case Study of Provincia di Brescia

A Raffaele, M Zavatteri, F Bazzoli, M Gussago… - Workshop on Operation …, 2022 - Springer
We analyze the case study of Provincia di Brescia, an Italian public body managing libraries
in the province of Brescia, in Northern Italy. The public body offers an interlibrary loan …

A Cluster-Based Approach to Solve Rich Vehicle Routing Problems

E Zunic, S Delalic, D Donko, H Supic - Conference on Information Systems …, 2020 - Springer
The vehicle routing problem is one of the most difficult combinatorial optimization problems.
Due to a large number of possibilities and practical limitations, there is no known algorithm …