Download or read book A Heuristic based Algorithm for Solving Multiple Supply Vehicle Routing Problems written by Tom Wilger and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Vehicle Routing Problem written by Paolo Toth and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Smart Delivery Systems written by Jakub Nalepa and published by . This book was released on 2019-11 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smart Delivery Systems: Solving Complex Vehicle Routing Problems examines both exact and approximate methods for delivering optimal solutions to rich vehicle routing problems, showing both the advantages and disadvantages of each approach. It shows how to apply machine learning and advanced data analysis techniques to improve routing systems, familiarizing readers with the concepts and technologies used in successfully implemented delivery systems. The book explains both the latest theoretical and practical advances in intelligent delivery and scheduling systems and presents practical applications for designing new algorithms for real-life scenarios. Emphasizes both sequential and parallel algorithms Uniquely combines methods and algorithms, real-life applications, and parallel computing Includes recommendations on how to choose between different methods for solving applications Provides learning aids, end of chapter references, bibliography, worked examples and exercises

Download or read book The Vehicle Routing Problem Latest Advances and New Challenges written by Bruce L. Golden and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-07-20 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a unified and carefully developed presentation, this book systematically examines recent developments in VRP. The book focuses on a portfolio of significant technical advances that have evolved over the past few years for modeling and solving vehicle routing problems and VRP variations. Reflecting the most recent scholarship, this book is written by one of the top research scholars in Vehicle Routing and is one of the most important books in VRP to be published in recent times.

Download or read book Research Anthology on Multi Industry Uses of Genetic Programming and Algorithms written by Management Association, Information Resources and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2020-12-05 with total page 1534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genetic programming is a new and evolutionary method that has become a novel area of research within artificial intelligence known for automatically generating high-quality solutions to optimization and search problems. This automatic aspect of the algorithms and the mimicking of natural selection and genetics makes genetic programming an intelligent component of problem solving that is highly regarded for its efficiency and vast capabilities. With the ability to be modified and adapted, easily distributed, and effective in large-scale/wide variety of problems, genetic algorithms and programming can be utilized in many diverse industries. This multi-industry uses vary from finance and economics to business and management all the way to healthcare and the sciences. The use of genetic programming and algorithms goes beyond human capabilities, enhancing the business and processes of various essential industries and improving functionality along the way. The Research Anthology on Multi-Industry Uses of Genetic Programming and Algorithms covers the implementation, tools and technologies, and impact on society that genetic programming and algorithms have had throughout multiple industries. By taking a multi-industry approach, this book covers the fundamentals of genetic programming through its technological benefits and challenges along with the latest advancements and future outlooks for computer science. This book is ideal for academicians, biological engineers, computer programmers, scientists, researchers, and upper-level students seeking the latest research on genetic programming.

Download or read book Models for Practical Routing Problems in Logistics written by S. P. Anbuudayasankar and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with complex variants of Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) and Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) within the manufacturing and service industries. The objective is to develop heuristics for these supply chain problems in order to offer practical solutions to improve operational efficiency. These heuristics are evaluated using benchmark and derived data-sets. Case studies pertaining to logistics in different industries including textile machinery manufacturing and banking are also included to demonstrate the created heuristics. High competition in today’s global market has forced the organizations to invest in and focus on their logistics system. The critical function of logistics is the transportation within and across various supply chain entities. Both supply and distribution procedure require effective transportation management. A small improvement in routing problems can lead to huge logistics savings in absolute terms. This book should appeal to executives, researchers and consultants seeking supply chain management solutions.

Download or read book Vehicle Routing written by Paolo Toth and published by SIAM. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vehicle routing problems, among the most studied in combinatorial optimization, arise in many practical contexts (freight distribution and collection, transportation, garbage collection, newspaper delivery, etc.). Operations researchers have made significant developments in the algorithms for their solution, and Vehicle Routing: Problems, Methods, and Applications, Second Edition reflects these advances. The text of the new edition is either completely new or significantly revised and provides extensive and complete state-of-the-art coverage of vehicle routing by those who have done most of the innovative research in the area; it emphasizes methodology related to specific classes of vehicle routing problems and, since vehicle routing is used as a benchmark for all new solution techniques, contains a complete overview of current solutions to combinatorial optimization problems. It also includes several chapters on important and emerging applications, such as disaster relief and green vehicle routing.

Download or read book Heuristics for the vehicle routing problem with multiple deliverymen written by Michael Huemer and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2013-09-02 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich BWL - Beschaffung, Produktion, Logistik, Note: Sehr gut, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz (Produktion und Logistik), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Hauptbestandteil dieser Arbeit ist das Testen verschiedener lokaler Suchoperatoren für eine Erweiterung des gutbekannten Vehicle Routing Problems. Diese erst vor kurzem eingeführte Erweiterung wurde notwendig um ein Routenplanungsproblem zu lösen, das daraus bestand, Getränke und Tabakwaren in dichtbesiedelten Groÿstädten in Brasilien auszuliefern. Es wurde nun versucht herauszunden, welche der VRPTW Operatoren geeignet sind, um das Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and Multiple Deliverymen (VRPTWMD) möglichst gut zu lösen. Insgesamt wurden vier Operatoren implementiert, wobei Relocate und Ejection Chains auf die Routenminimierung abzielen und Cross bzw. 2-opt entsprechend die gefahrene Distanz verringern sollten. Um die Operatoren zu testen, wurden die benötigten Startlösungen mit der von Solomon entwickelten I1 Einfügeheuristik generiert. Die Erkenntnisse aus den Tests wurden schieÿlich dazu verwendet, eine best performance Variante zu entwickeln, welche anhand der Solomon Instanzen R101 bis R112 getestet wurde. Die Ergebnisse der Tests benden sich am Ende der Arbeit. The Vehicle Routing Problem with time windows is a well studied problem in literature. The extension to Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and Multiple Deliverymen (VRPTWMD) has been proposed to solve a delivery problem of commodities, like beverages and tobacco in highly populated areas in Brazil. This rather new problem structure in the VRPTW context, is the main subject of the work. In this thesis, the aim is to nd out, which operators used for VRP are most suitable for the VRPTWMS. Relocate and Ejection Chain operators were tested for truck and deliverymen reduction, Cross and 2-opt were implemented to reduce distance. The Solomon I1 insertion heuristic was used to obtain starting solutions, for the tests and the nal version of the algorithm proposed. To complete this work, several tests have been performed and the results of the algorithm running Solomon R101- R112 instances can be found at the end.

Download or read book Advances in Production Management Systems Sustainable Production and Service Supply Chains written by Vittal Prabhu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two volumes IFIP AICT 414 and 415 constitute the refereed proceedings of the International IFIP WG 5.7 Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems, APMS 2013, held in University Park, PA, USA, in September 2013. The 133 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the two volumes. They are organized in 4 parts: sustainable production, sustainable supply chains, sustainable services, and ICT and emerging technologies.

Download or read book A Sweep Based Algorithm for the Fleet Size and Mix Vehicle Routing Problem written by Boctor, Fayez F. (Fayez Fouad) and published by Québec : Faculté des sciences de l'administration de l'Université Laval, Direction de la recherche. This book was released on 2000 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Column Generation written by Guy Desaulniers and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-03-20 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Column Generation is an insightful overview of the state of the art in integer programming column generation and its many applications. The volume begins with "A Primer in Column Generation" which outlines the theory and ideas necessary to solve large-scale practical problems, illustrated with a variety of examples. Other chapters follow this introduction on "Shortest Path Problems with Resource Constraints," "Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Window," "Branch-and-Price Heuristics," "Cutting Stock Problems," each dealing with methodological aspects of the field. Three chapters deal with transportation applications: "Large-scale Models in the Airline Industry," "Robust Inventory Ship Routing by Column Generation," and "Ship Scheduling with Recurring Visits and Visit Separation Requirements." Production is the focus of another three chapters: "Combining Column Generation and Lagrangian Relaxation," "Dantzig-Wolfe Decomposition for Job Shop Scheduling," and "Applying Column Generation to Machine Scheduling." The final chapter by François Vanderbeck, "Implementing Mixed Integer Column Generation," reviews how to set-up the Dantzig-Wolfe reformulation, adapt standard MIP techniques to the column generation context (branching, preprocessing, primal heuristics), and deal with specific column generation issues (initialization, stabilization, column management strategies).

Download or read book Metaheuristics for Vehicle Routing Problems written by Nacima Labadie and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is dedicated to metaheuristics as applied to vehicle routing problems. Several implementations are given as illustrative examples, along with applications to several typical vehicle routing problems. As a first step, a general presentation intends to make the reader more familiar with the related field of logistics and combinatorial optimization. This preamble is completed with a description of significant heuristic methods classically used to provide feasible solutions quickly, and local improvement moves widely used to search for enhanced solutions. The overview of these fundamentals allows appreciating the core of the work devoted to an analysis of metaheuristic methods for vehicle routing problems. Those methods are exposed according to their feature of working either on a sequence of single solutions, or on a set of solutions, or even by hybridizing metaheuristic approaches with others kind of methods.

Download or read book Handbooks in Operations Research and Management Science Transportation written by Cynthia Barnhart and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2006-12-08 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains eleven chapters describing some of the most recent methodological operations research developments in transportation. It is structured around the main transportation modes, and each chapter is written by a group of well-recognized researchers. Because of the major impact of operations research methods in the field of air transportation over the past forty years, it is befitting to open the book with a chapter on airline operations management. This book will prove useful to researchers, students, and practitioners in transportation and will stimulate further research in this rich and fascinating area. - Volume 14 examines transport and its relationship with operations and management science - 11 chapters cover the most recent research developments in transportation - Focuses on main transportation modes-air travel, automobile, public transit, maritime transport, and more

Download or read book Handbook of Metaheuristics written by Michel Gendreau and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third edition of this handbook is designed to provide a broad coverage of the concepts, implementations, and applications in metaheuristics. The book’s chapters serve as stand-alone presentations giving both the necessary underpinnings as well as practical guides for implementation. The nature of metaheuristics invites an analyst to modify basic methods in response to problem characteristics, past experiences, and personal preferences, and the chapters in this handbook are designed to facilitate this process as well. This new edition has been fully revised and features new chapters on swarm intelligence and automated design of metaheuristics from flexible algorithm frameworks. The authors who have contributed to this volume represent leading figures from the metaheuristic community and are responsible for pioneering contributions to the fields they write about. Their collective work has significantly enriched the field of optimization in general and combinatorial optimization in particular.Metaheuristics are solution methods that orchestrate an interaction between local improvement procedures and higher level strategies to create a process capable of escaping from local optima and performing a robust search of a solution space. In addition, many new and exciting developments and extensions have been observed in the last few years. Hybrids of metaheuristics with other optimization techniques, like branch-and-bound, mathematical programming or constraint programming are also increasingly popular. On the front of applications, metaheuristics are now used to find high-quality solutions to an ever-growing number of complex, ill-defined real-world problems, in particular combinatorial ones. This handbook should continue to be a great reference for researchers, graduate students, as well as practitioners interested in metaheuristics.

Download or read book Heuristics and Exact Algorithms for Synchronized Pickup and Delivery Problems written by Imadeddine Aziez and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's challenging and competitive global business environment, supply chains have become more complex and sensitive due to their dependence on constantly changing customer demands. Creating value for customers does not always refer to the quality or quantity of the product, it also refers to the availability of the product on time at the requested location. Leveraging a supply chain to provide high value to customers cannot be possible without effectively organized transportation. A better delivery service increases the availability of products to fulfill the demand of customers. Therefore, business practitioners consider it a very important factor in creating value for customers. Transportation is one of the key components in the entire supply chain, it has a critical role in maintaining a robust and resilient supply chain. Moreover, an efficient transportation network helps businesses to reduce operating costs, increase service levels, and gain a clear advantage over the competition. This increases research interest focused on transportation operations management. Throughout this research, we are interested in pickup and delivery problems (PDPs) which are a generalization of the classical vehicle routing problem (VRP). In general, the PDPs involve designing minimum-cost routes for a set of vehicles to satisfy all the pickup-delivery requests. Pairing and precedence relations of pickup and delivery locations must be respected. Variants of PDPs are found by adding side constraints such as time windows, vehicle capacity, etc. This class of optimization problems has applications in several real-life contexts, such as door-to-door passenger transportation, urban courier services, maritime shipping and freight transportation. PDPs have been widely addressed in the literature. However, modern delivery networks with more and more complex operations and special characteristics make conventional methods limited and/or inefficient. Hence, developing new innovative solution methods to tackle the new challenges of the transportation industry is crucial. In this research project, we tackle real-life PDPs arising from different contexts, such as last mile delivery and healthcare services. First, we study a new rich PDP in the context of last mile delivery known as the multi-pickup and delivery problem with time windows (MPDPTW). This problem finds many real-life applications, some of them are in the context of shared economy such as UBER EAT services, where a client is allowed to order food from different restaurants; the company must then perform all pickups at different places, before delivering all meals to the client location. We designed a new branch-and-cut algorithm for the MPDPTW providing the first dual bounds for the problem and obtaining tight solutions for large instances. In this work, two new formulations for the problem are introduced, a two-index formulation and the asymmetric representatives formulation (ARF). A transformation of the MPDPTW into a PDPTW is also proposed and tested. The mathematical formulations are then compared to define the best one for the problem. The second problem tackled in this research project is a PDP-related application in the context of healthcare logistics. Transportation activities in hospitals are now becoming more complex due to the wide variety of supplies and equipment used such as disposable items which are being used more frequently. This results in the expansion of the volume of transportation in hospitals. These factors justify the need for more efficiency and productivity of transportation systems in hospitals in order to meet the service level expected by patients without increasing costs. One of the most powerful ways of achieving these goals is the automation of logistics processes by using automated guided vehicles. We study the fleet sizing and routing problem with synchronization of automated guided vehicles with dynamic demands in the context of a real-life application with an industrial partner from the healthcare industry in Quebec City, Canada. We describe the problem, introduce a mathematical formulation for it, and propose a powerful matheuristic to solve it. Computational experiments are conducted on large and small instances generated based on real-data provided by our industrial partner. The third problem studied in this project is another application, this time in the context of ready-mixed concrete (RMC) delivery. Many challenging operational problems are faced by RMC suppliers such as scheduling production operations at production plants, creating daily and weekly drivers' schedules, loading operations scheduling, and delivering concrete to construction sites. In a business environment characterized by a fierce competition, innovative solutions are needed to tackle these problems in order to achieve operational efficiency and guarantee a competitive advantage. Although optimizing concrete delivery operations is essential for concrete companies, drivers' and customers' satisfaction should not be neglected. We study the personnel scheduling problem for RMC delivery in the context of a real-life application with a concrete company in Quebec, Canada. The goal is to help RMC suppliers build cost-effective and consistent (similar starting times over the week) drivers' schedules over a large planning horizon, under tight operational and regulatory constraints. The PSP-RMC embeds a PDP which is solved to create routes for drivers. We describe the problem and propose a two-stage metaheuristic algorithm to solve it. Computational experiments are conducted on artificial instances, and on instances generated based on real-data provided by our industrial partner. This thesis is structured as follows. A literature review on the pickup and delivery problems is presented after an introductory chapter. Chapter 2 is devoted to the multi-pickup and delivery problem with time windows, and Chapter 3 presents the fleet sizing and routing problem with synchronization of automated guided vehicles with dynamic demands. Chapter 4 presents the personnel scheduling problem for ready-mixed concrete delivery. The conclusion follows and summarizes the main contributions of this thesis in the last Chapter.

Download or read book Variable Neighborhood Search written by Rachid Benmansour and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume constitutes the post- conference proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Variable Neighborhood Search, ICVNS 2019, held in Rabat, Morocco, in October 2019. The 13 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 46 submissions. The papers describe recent advances in methods and applications of variable neighborhood search.

Download or read book Network Design with Applications to Transportation and Logistics written by Teodor Gabriel Crainic and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-16 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the methodological and application developments of network design in transportation and logistics. It identifies trends, challenges and research perspectives in network design for these areas. Network design is a major class of problems in operations research where network flow, combinatorial and mixed integer optimization meet. The analysis and planning of transportation and logistics systems continues to be one of the most important application areas of operations research. Networks provide the natural way of depicting such systems, so the optimal design and operation of networks is the main methodological area of operations research that is used for the analysis and planning of these systems. This book defines the current state of the art in the general area of network design, and then turns to its applications to transportation and logistics. New research challenges are addressed. Network Design with Applications to Transportation and Logistics is divided into three parts. Part I examines basic design problems including fixed-cost network design and parallel algorithms. After addressing the basics, Part II focuses on more advanced models. Chapters cover topics such as multi-facility network design, flow-constrained network design, and robust network design. Finally Part III is dedicated entirely to the potential application areas for network design. These areas range from rail networks, to city logistics, to energy transport. All of the chapters are written by leading researchers in the field, which should appeal to analysts and planners.