Machine learning at the service of meta-heuristics for solving combinatorial optimization problems: A state-of-the-art

M Karimi-Mamaghan, M Mohammadi, P Meyer… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
In recent years, there has been a growing research interest in integrating machine learning
techniques into meta-heuristics for solving combinatorial optimization problems. This …

Reinforcement learning for logistics and supply chain management: Methodologies, state of the art, and future opportunities

Y Yan, AHF Chow, CP Ho, YH Kuo, Q Wu… - … Research Part E …, 2022 - Elsevier
With advances in technologies, data science techniques, and computing equipment, there
has been rapidly increasing interest in the applications of reinforcement learning (RL) to …

An overview and experimental study of learning-based optimization algorithms for the vehicle routing problem

B Li, G Wu, Y He, M Fan… - IEEE/CAA Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The vehicle routing problem (VRP) is a typical discrete combinatorial optimization problem,
and many models and algorithms have been proposed to solve the VRP and its variants …

[HTML][HTML] Metaheuristics “in the large”

J Swan, S Adriaensen, AEI Brownlee… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Following decades of sustained improvement, metaheuristics are one of the great success
stories of optimization research. However, in order for research in metaheuristics to avoid …

Learnheuristics: hybridizing metaheuristics with machine learning for optimization with dynamic inputs

L Calvet, J de Armas, D Masip, AA Juan - Open Mathematics, 2017 - degruyter.com
This paper reviews the existing literature on the combination of metaheuristics with machine
learning methods and then introduces the concept of learnheuristics, a novel type of hybrid …

A reinforcement learning-based multi-agent framework applied for solving routing and scheduling problems

MAL Silva, SR de Souza, MJF Souza… - Expert Systems with …, 2019 - Elsevier
This article presents a multi-agent framework for optimization using metaheuristics, called
AMAM. In this proposal, each agent acts independently in the search space of a …

Biased randomization of heuristics using skewed probability distributions: A survey and some applications

A Grasas, AA Juan, J Faulin, J De Armas… - Computers & Industrial …, 2017 - Elsevier
Randomized heuristics are widely used to solve large scale combinatorial optimization
problems. Among the plethora of randomized heuristics, this paper reviews those that …

Agile optimization of a two‐echelon vehicle routing problem with pickup and delivery

L do C. Martins, P Hirsch… - … Transactions in Operational …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, we consider a vehicle routing problem in which a fleet of homogeneous
vehicles, initially located at a depot, has to satisfy customers' demands in a two‐echelon …

A KNN quantum cuckoo search algorithm applied to the multidimensional knapsack problem

J García, C Maureira - Applied Soft Computing, 2021 - Elsevier
Optimization algorithms and particularly metaheuristics are constantly improved with the
goal of reducing execution times, increasing the quality of solutions, and addressing larger …

A multi-agent based cooperative approach to decentralized multi-project scheduling and resource allocation

F Li, Z Xu, H Li - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
While project crashing is a prominent practice in project management and can be
approached by the well-known time–cost tradeoff problem (TCTP), the existing …