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Fakhar Uddin, Naveed Riaz, Abdul Manan, Imran Mahmood, Oh-Young Song, Arif Jamal Malik and Aaqif Afzaal Abbasi
The travelling salesman problem (TSP) is perhaps the most researched problem in the field of Computer Science and Operations. It is a known NP-hard problem and has significant practical applications in a variety of areas, such as logistics, planning, and...
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Domagoj Jakobovic, Marko Ðurasevic, Karla Brkic, Juraj Fosin, Tonci Caric and Davor Davidovic
Many real-world applications of the vehicle routing problem (VRP) are arising today, which range from physical resource planning to virtual resource management in the cloud computing domain. A common trait of these applications is usually the large scale...
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Antonino Vitetta
Given two pick-up and delivery points, the best path chosen does not necessarily follow the criteria of minimum travel time or generalized minimum cost evaluated with a deterministic approach. Given a criterion, the perceived cost is not deterministic fo...
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Keyju Lee and Junjae Chae
The vehicle routing problem (VRP) attempts to find optimal (minimum length) routes for a set of vehicles visiting a set of locations. Solving a VRP calls for a cost matrix between locations. The size of the matrix grows quadratically with an increasing n...
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Inês A. Ferreira, Catarina Bento, Luís Mascarenhas, Carina Pimentel and Helena Carvalho
The number of variants of the vehicle routing problem (VRP) has grown rapidly in the last decades. Among these, VRPs with time window constraints are among the most studied ones. However, the literature regarding VRPs that concerns the delivery and insta...
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Sana Sahar Guia, Abdelkader Laouid, Mohammad Hammoudeh, Ahcène Bounceur, Mai Alfawair and Amna Eleyan
Complex systems are often designed in a decentralized and open way so that they can operate on heterogeneous entities that communicate with each other. Numerous studies consider the process of components simulation in a complex system as a proven approac...
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Ahmad Alhindi, Abrar Alsaidi and Amr Munshi
The distributor management system has long been a challenge for many organizations and companies. Overall, successful distribution involves several moving entities and methods, requiring a resilient distribution management strategy powered by data analys...
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Adrian Serrano-Hernandez, Rocio de la Torre, Luis Cadarso and Javier Faulin
E-commerce has boosted in the last decades because of the achievements of the information and telecommunications technology along with the changes in the society life-style. More recently, the groceries online purchase (or e-grocery), has also prevailed ...
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Liqun Liu, Jiuyuan Huo, Fei Xue and Yongqiang Dai
This paper proposes an improved Harmony Search algorithm, and gives the definition of the Global Sharing Factor of the Harmony Search (HS) algorithm. In the definition, the number of creations of the HS algorithm is applied to the sharing factor and calc...
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Ines Khoufi, Anis Laouiti and Cedric Adjih
The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is rapidly growing in popularity. Initially introduced for military purposes, over the past few years, UAVs and related technologies have successfully transitioned to a whole new range of civilian applications s...
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