Vehicle routing problems have been the focus of extensive research over the past sixty
years, driven by their economic importance and their theoretical interest. The diversity of …

A guide to vehicle routing heuristics Page 1 Journal of the Operational Research Society (2002)
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Publisher Summary This chapter discusses some of the most important vehicle routing
problem types. The vehicle routing problem lies at the heart of distribution management. It is …

This paper introduces a new approach to address the person re-identification problem in
cameras with non-overlapping fields of view. Unlike previous approaches that learn …

In this paper, we introduce a new spatially constrained clustering problem called the max‐p‐
regions problem. It involves the clustering of a set of geographic areas into the maximum …

There are many applications across a broad range of business problem domains in which
equity is a concern and many well-known operational research (OR) problems such as …

This paper presents a new hybrid variable neighborhood-tabu search heuristic for the
Vehicle Routing Problem with Multiple Time windows. It also proposes a minimum backward …

For several years, parts of the content of this textbook have been used in undergraduate
courses in the Department of Mathematics and in the Faculty of Economics at the University …

Districting is the problem of grouping small geographic areas, called basic units, into larger
geographic clusters, called districts, such that the latter are balanced, contiguous, and …

Territory design may be viewed as the problem of grouping small geographic areas into
larger geographic clusters called territories in such a way that the latter are acceptable …