A multi-agent VRP solver is presented in this paper. It utilizes the contract-net protocol based allocation and several improvement strategies. It provides the solution with the q...
: In this paper, we study a new variant of the vehicle routing problem (VRP) with time windows, multi-shift, and overtime. In this problem, a limited fleet of vehicles is used repe...
Yingtao Ren, Maged M. Dessouky, Fernando Ord&oacut...
The Vehicle Routing Problem’s main objective is to find the lowest-cost set of routes to deliver goods to customers, which have a service time window, using a fleet of identic...
A variety of hybrid genetic algorithms has been recently proposed to address the vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRPTW), a problem known to be NP-hard. However, very few...
Abstract. Scheduling problems in the forest industry have received significant attention in the recent years and have contributed many challenging applications for optimization te...
Nizar El Hachemi, Michel Gendreau, Louis-Martin Ro...