The demands for renewable energy generation are progressively expanding because of
environmental safety concerns. Renewable energy is power generated from sources that …

Emergencies, such as pandemics (eg, COVID-19), warrant urgent production and
distribution of goods under disrupted supply chain conditions. An innovative logistics …

Vehicle routing is a well-known optimization research topic with significant practical
importance. Among different approaches to solving vehicle routing, heuristics can produce a …

The increasing focus on environmental regulations and the economic advantages of
recycling has spurred interest in the design of multidepot reverse logistics networks …

Efficient logistics network designs can contribute to operational cost savings and efficiency
improvements. In this study, a two-echelon multi-depot multi-period location-routing problem …

The humanitarian logistics vehicle routing problem (VRP) of urban emergency supplies in
response to epidemic outbreaks is studied in this work to address the adverse effects of …

This paper presents a two-echelon vehicle routing problem (2E-VRP) with vehicle
synchronization at meeting points for the reverse logistic network to collect waste in the …

A three-dimensional ant colony optimization algorithm (TDACO) is proposed to solve the
multi-compartment vehicle routing problem (MCVRP) arising in many industries, such as …

This paper proposes a hybrid Enhanced Chimp-Harris Hawks Optimization Algorithm (ECH
3 OA) that combines both enhanced Chimp Optimization algorithm (ChOA) and Harris …

Several optimization-based population search methods have been proposed; they use
various operators that permit exploring the search space. These methods typically suffer …