The attributes of vehicle routing problems are additional characteristics or constraints that
aim to better take into account the specificities of real applications. The variants thus formed …

The need to describe the complexity of the situation concerning fires with more accuracy and
taking all the different phases of the fire behaviour (such as the ignition, its growing, its …

Metaheuristics are a relatively new but already established approach to combinatorial
optimization. A metaheuristic is a generic algorithmic template that can be used for finding …

Graph partitioning is a theoretical subject with applications in many areas, principally:
numerical analysis, programs mapping onto parallel architectures, image segmentation …

Heuristic methods are used when rigorous ones are either unknown or cannot be applied,
typically because they would be too slow. A metaheuristic is a general optimization …

Metaheuristics for the Vehicle Routing Problem and Its Extensions: A Categorized Bibliography
Page 1 Metaheuristics for the Vehicle Routing Problem and Its Extensions: A Categorized …

In the present economic context, the operating theatre is considered as a critical activity in
health care management. By virtue of its huge consumption of human and material …

Due to their importance in the fields of both manufacturing industries and operations
research, production scheduling and maintenance planning have received considerable …

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 …

In this paper, an ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithm is proposed for operations of
steady flow gas pipeline. The system is composed of compressing stations linked by …