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 …

Resource transport in the aftermath of disasters is critical, yet in the absence of sufficient
historical data or accurate forecasting approaches, the development of resource transport …

Compared with conventional freight vehicles, electric freight vehicles create less local
pollution and are thus generally perceived as a more sustainable means of goods …

Robust optimization is an emerging area in research that allows addressing different
optimization problems and specifically industrial optimization problems where there is a …

In today's competitive environment, one of the most critical objectives for Home Health Care
(HHC) companies is to meet the demand of patients in a timely fashion. According to the …

Benders decomposition uses a strategy of``learning from one's mistakes.''The aim of this
paper is to extend this strategy to a much larger class of problems. The key is to generalize …

Since the late 70s, much research activity has taken place on the class of dynamic vehicle
routing problems (DVRP), with the time period after year 2000 witnessing a real explosion in …

In a more and more competitive and global world, freight transports have to overcome
increasingly long distances while at the same time becoming more reliable. In addition, a …

Due to an increase in customer-oriented service strategies designed to meet more complex
and exacting customer requirements, meeting a scheduled time window has become an …

We consider an integrated berth allocation and quay crane assignment and scheduling
problem where the arrival times of the vessels may be affected by uncertainty. The problem …