This article provides a survey on the highly popular metaheuristic framework, the adaptive
large neighborhood search (ALNS). The basic concepts of ALNS are discussed in this …

In recent years, significant attentions have been devoted to design of metaheuristic
optimization algorithms in order to solve optimization problems. Metaheuristic optimizers are …

Abstract The Electric Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (EVRPTW) is an
extension to the well-known Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (VRPTW) where …

In this paper, we present an electric vehicles battery swap stations location routing problem
(BSS–EV–LRP), which aims to determine the location strategy of battery swap stations …

In the last 15 years, heuristics based on large neighborhood search (LNS) and the variant
adaptive large neighborhood search (ALNS) have become some of the most successful …

Factory management plays an important role in improving the productivity and quality of
service in the production process. In particular, the distributed permutation flow shop …

This paper focuses on the integrated berth allocation and quay crane assignment problem in
container terminals. We consider the decrease in the marginal productivity of quay cranes …

The use of electric buses is expected to rise due to its environmental benefits. However,
electric vehicles are less flexible than conventional diesel buses due to their limited driving …

Blood shortage may lead to immeasurable losses. But the perishable nature of blood
products limits the possibility of storing a large amount of it, and the quality of blood products …

Production and distribution problems with perishable goods are common in many industries.
For the sake of the competitiveness of the companies, the supply chain planning of products …