Machine learning for combinatorial optimization: a methodological tour d'horizon

Y Bengio, A Lodi, A Prouvost - European Journal of Operational Research, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper surveys the recent attempts, both from the machine learning and operations
research communities, at leveraging machine learning to solve combinatorial optimization …

Applications of machine learning methods in port operations–A systematic literature review

S Filom, AM Amiri, S Razavi - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Ports are pivotal nodes in supply chain and transportation networks, in which most of the
existing data remain underutilized. Machine learning methods are versatile tools to utilize …

Simulation-guided beam search for neural combinatorial optimization

J Choo, YD Kwon, J Kim, J Jae… - Advances in …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Neural approaches for combinatorial optimization (CO) equip a learning mechanism to
discover powerful heuristics for solving complex real-world problems. While neural …

Neural large neighborhood search for the capacitated vehicle routing problem

A Hottung, K Tierney - ECAI 2020, 2020 - ebooks.iospress.nl
Learning how to automatically solve optimization problems has the potential to provide the
next big leap in optimization technology. The performance of automatically learned …

Efficient active search for combinatorial optimization problems

A Hottung, YD Kwon, K Tierney - arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.05126, 2021 - arxiv.org
Recently numerous machine learning based methods for combinatorial optimization
problems have been proposed that learn to construct solutions in a sequential decision …

A comprehensive review of quay crane scheduling, yard operations and integrations thereof in container terminals

D Kizilay, DT Eliiyi - Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal, 2021 - Springer
Over the past decades, container transportation has achieved considerable growth, and
maritime trade now constitutes 80% of the global trade. The vessel sizes increased in …

[HTML][HTML] The synergistic effect of operational research and big data analytics in greening container terminal operations: A review and future directions

R Raeesi, N Sahebjamnia, SA Mansouri - European Journal of Operational …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Container Terminals (CTs) are continuously presented with highly interrelated,
complex, and uncertain planning tasks. The ever-increasing intensity of operations at CTs in …

[HTML][HTML] Optimization with constraint learning: A framework and survey

AO Fajemisin, D Maragno, D den Hertog - European Journal of Operational …, 2024 - Elsevier
Many real-life optimization problems frequently contain one or more constraints or objectives
for which there are no explicit formulae. If however data on feasible and/or infeasible states …

Machine learning for data-driven last-mile delivery optimization

SS Özarık, P da Costa, AM Florio - Transportation Science, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
In the context of the Amazon Last-Mile Routing Research Challenge, this paper presents a
machine-learning framework for optimizing last-mile delivery routes. Contrary to most routing …

Great partners: How deep learning and blockchain help improve business operations together

S Luo, TM Choi - Annals of Operations Research, 2024 - Springer
Business operations have entered the digital era in which artificial intelligence (AI), machine
learning (ML) and blockchain (BKC) have emerged as major disruptive forces. In AI and ML …