A survey of adaptive large neighborhood search algorithms and applications

STW Mara, R Norcahyo, P Jodiawan… - Computers & Operations …, 2022 - Elsevier
This article provides a survey on the highly popular metaheuristic framework, the adaptive
large neighborhood search (ALNS). The basic concepts of ALNS are discussed in this …

[HTML][HTML] Technician routing and scheduling for the sharing economy

M Nowak, P Szufel - European Journal of Operational Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Efficient routing and scheduling plans for a modern workforce are challenging to develop for
many firms offering services to customers at their home. In this paper, we focus on those …

A branch-and-price-and-cut for the manpower allocation and vehicle routing problem with staff qualifications and time windows

X Su, G Xu, N Huang, H Qin - Advanced Engineering Informatics, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper addresses a manpower allocation and vehicle routing problem with staff
qualifications and time windows (MAVRP-SQTW), which is an extension of the manpower …

A reliability-and-cost-based framework to optimize maintenance planning and diverse-skilled technician routing for geographically distributed systems

G Si, T Xia, N Gebraeel, D Wang, E Pan, L Xi - Reliability Engineering & …, 2022 - Elsevier
We present an agile maintenance framework where technician assignment and
maintenance schedules are planned jointly to ensure timely operation and maintenance …

The multi-period workforce scheduling and routing problem

G Guastaroba, JF Côté, LC Coelho - Omega, 2021 - Elsevier
Motivated by the problem faced by a company that provides installation and maintenance
services of electrical infrastructures, we study the Multi-Period Workforce Scheduling and …

Resource allocation and maintenance scheduling for distributed multi-center renewable energy systems considering dynamic scope division

G Si, T Xia, Y Li, D Wang, Z Chen, E Pan, L Xi - Renewable Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
The continuity of activity and competition in the global renewable energy market has driven
manufacturers to shift from centralized to decentralized structures and to develop multi …

An efficient optimisation procedure for the workforce scheduling and routing problem: Lagrangian relaxation and iterated local search

H Gu, Y Zhang, Y Zinder - Computers & Operations Research, 2022 - Elsevier
The paper is concerned with the Workforce Scheduling and Routing Problem where certain
service providers complete tasks at different locations. The presented optimisation …

Formation and routing of worker teams for airport ground handling operations: A branch-and-price-and-check approach

G Dall'Olio, R Kolisch - Transportation Science, 2023 - pubsonline.informs.org
We address workforce optimization for ground handling operations at the airport, focusing
on baggage loading and unloading. Teams of skilled workers have to be formed and routed …

[PDF][PDF] Learning-Based Metaheuristic Approach for Home Healthcare Optimization Problem.

M Belhor, A El-Amraoui, A Jemai… - Comput. Syst. Sci …, 2023 - cdn.techscience.cn
This research focuses on the home health care optimization problem that involves staff
routing and scheduling problems. The considered problem is an extension of multiple …

Sustainable pricing-production-workforce-routing problem for perishable products by considering demand uncertainty; a case study from the dairy industry

A Majidi… - Transportation …, 2022 - scholarlypublishingcollective.org
The production routing problem seeks to simultaneously optimize production, routing, and
inventory decisions for the plant and the suppliers. In this article an integrated multi-objective …