In the service industry, it is crucial to efficiently allocate scarce resources to perform tasks
and meet particular service requirements. What considerably complicates matters is when …

Abstract The Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) seeks to find minimum-travel routes for a set of
vehicles. The routes contain a set of customers with known demands. Each vehicle departs …

We study a generalization of the Skill VRP that incorporates time windows aspects,
precedence and synchronization constraints. Specifically, we are given a logistic network …

This paper considers a variant of the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows, with site
dependencies, multiple depots and outsourcing costs. This problem is the basis for many …

The continued air traffic growth leads to more fuel consumption for the total aviation
operation. Studying how to achieve energy-saving operations through a more reasonable …

As an important part of the ground service for flights parked at remote stands, the scheduling
optimization of ferry vehicles is the key factor to improve the apron support capacity …

Home repair and installation services require technicians to visit customers and resolve
tasks of different complexity. Technicians often have heterogeneous skills and working …

The main purpose of the vehicle routing problem (VRP) is to deliver a set of customers with
known demands on minimum-travel routes and terminating at the same depot. The vehicle …

Abstract We introduce the Synchronized Multi-Assignment Orienteering Problem (SMOP), a
vehicle routing problem that requires jointly selecting a set of jobs while synchronizing the …

The vehicle routing problem (VRP) and its variants have been extensively studied for many
decades due to its ubiquitous applications in industry such as logistics and transportation …