Automated guided vehicles (AGVs) form a large and important part of the logistic transport
systems in today's industry. They are used on a large scale, especially in Europe, for over a …

Memetic computing is a subject in computer science which considers complex structures
such as the combination of simple agents and memes, whose evolutionary interactions lead …

The increasing tendency of network service users to use cloud computing encourages web
service vendors to supply services that have different functional and nonfunctional (quality of …

The Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) was introduced 50 years ago by Dantzig and Ramser
under the title “The Truck Dispatching Problem.” The study of the VRP has given rise to …

In this article, we study the reinforcement learning (RL) for vehicle routing problems (VRPs).
Recent works have shown that attention-based RL models outperform recurrent neural …

Chapter 4 GENETIC ALGORITHMS Page 1 Chapter 4 GENETIC ALGORITHMS Kumara Sastry,
David Goldberg University of Illinois, USA Graham Kendall University of Nottingham, UK 4.1 …

This paper describes industrial aspects of combined inventory management and routing in
maritime and road-based transportation, and gives a classification and comprehensive …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses some of the most important vehicle routing
problem types. The vehicle routing problem lies at the heart of distribution management. It is …

Memetic Algorithms (MAs) are computational intelligence structures combining multiple and
various operators in order to address optimization problems. The combination and …

Genetic algorithms (GAs) have become popular as a means of solving hard combinatorial
optimization problems. The first part of this chapter briefly traces their history, explains the …