Recently, a taxonomic review of the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) literature published
between 2009 and June 2015 stated that most of the surveyed articles use metaheuristics …

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 …

We present a mathematical formulation and a heuristic solution approach for the optimal
planning of delivery routes in a multi-modal system combining truck and Unmanned Aerial …

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 …

Vehicle routing attributes are extra characteristics and decisions that complement the
academic problem formulations and aim to properly account for real-life application needs …

The attributes of vehicle routing problems are additional characteristics or constraints that
aim to better take into account the specificities of real applications. The variants thus formed …

Abstract We extend the Traveling Repairman Problem (TRP) by assuming a single truck
which can stop at customer locations and launch drones multiple times from each stop …

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

The cumulative capacitated vehicle routing problem (CCVRP) is a variation of the classical
capacitated vehicle routing problem in which the objective is the minimization of the sum of …

In this paper, we conduct a comparative analysis of three synchronized truck-and-drone
delivery models for package delivery. In these models, drones are launched from the truck to …