Vehicle routing problems have been the focus of extensive research over the past sixty
years, driven by their economic importance and their theoretical interest. The diversity of …

The amount of data produced and communicated over the Internet is significantly increasing,
thereby creating challenges for the organizations that would like to reap the benefits from …

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 …

In order to ensure high‐quality and on‐time delivery in logistic distribution processes, it is
necessary to efficiently manage the delivery fleet. Nowadays, due to the new policies and …

Smart manufacturing has received increased attention from academia and industry in recent
years, as it provides competitive advantage for manufacturing companies making industry …

Existing approaches to solving combinatorial optimization problems on graphs suffer from
the need to engineer each problem algorithmically, with practical problems recurring in …

We consider the problem of designing a parcel locker network as a solution to the Logistics
Last Mile Problem: Choosing the optimal number, locations, and sizes of parcel locekers …

Due to new regulations and further technological progress in the field of electric vehicles, the
research community faces the new challenge of incorporating the electric energy based …

This paper presents several heuristics for a variation of the vehicle routing problem in which
the transportation fleet is composed of electric vehicles with limited autonomy in need for …

Critical minerals bring new challenges to energy security in the transition to clean energy, so
their supply and prices are a spectacle of global uncertainties. This research investigates the …