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We introduce the Pickup and Delivery Problem with Time Windows and Scheduling on the Edges (PDPTW-SE), a generalization of the PDPTW that integrates vehicle routing and machine scheduling. The problem involves defining routes for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Vítor A. Barbosa , Sunil Tiwari , Rafael A. Melo

We study the incremental knapsack problem, where one wishes to sequentially pack items into a knapsack whose capacity expands over a finite planning horizon, with the objective of maximizing time-averaged profits. While various…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Ali Aouad , Danny Segev

The Multi-Commodity Pickup and Delivery Vehicle Routing Problem aims to optimize the pickup and delivery of multiple unique commodities using a fleet of several agents with limited payload capacities. This paper addresses the challenge of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-30 Mithun Goutham , Stephanie Stockar

The optimal design of multi-target rendezvous and flyby missions is challenging due to the combination of traditional spacecraft trajectory optimization and high-dimensional combinatorial problems. This often requires large-scale global…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-24 Jack Yarndley , Harry Holt , Roberto Armellin

We study the Min-Weighted Sum Bin Packing problem, a variant of the classical Bin Packing problem in which items have a weight, and each item induces a cost equal to its weight multiplied by the index of the bin in which it is packed. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Guillaume Sagnol

Due to the restricted resources, efficient scheduling in vertiports has received much more attention in the field of Urban Air Mobility (UAM). For the scheduling problem, we utilize a Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP), which is often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Jeongseok Kim , Kangjin Kim

Our work departs from the original definition of the Pickup and Delivery Problem (PDP) and extends it by considering an interchange point (crossdock) where vehicles can exchange their goods with other vehicles in order to shorten their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Konstantinos Gkiotsalitis , Amalia Nikolopoulou

Mixed-Integer Programming (MIP), particularly Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) and Mixed-Integer Quadratic Programming (MIQP), has found extensive applications in domains such as portfolio optimization and network flow control, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Zayn Wang

Global optimization of decision trees is a long-standing challenge in combinatorial optimization, yet such models play an important role in interpretable machine learning. Although the problem has been investigated for several decades, only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Jiancheng Tu , Wenqi Fan , Zhibin Wu

In project scheduling under processing times uncertainty, the Anchor-Robust Project Scheduling Problem is to find a baseline schedule of bounded makespan and a max-weight subset of jobs whose starting times are guaranteed. The problem was…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-24 Pascale Bendotti , Philippe Chrétienne , Pierre Fouilhoux , Adèle Pass-Lanneau

Oil products are the main source of energy in the world today. Distribution of these products is one of the main issues in the industry. The main tools for this work are pipelines, and along with it, railways, shipping and roads are also…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-03 Seyyed Hamed Moghimi , Jafar Habibi , Hamid Jahad , Mohammad Amin Fazli

This paper presents a solver-friendly logic-based mixed-integer nonlinear programming model (LB-MINLP) to solve economic dispatch (ED) problems considering disjoint operating zones and valve-point effects. A simultaneous consideration of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-15 Mahdi Pourakbari-Kasmaei , Mahmud Fotuhi-Firuzabad , Jose Roberto Sanches Mantovani

We study the Joint Routing-Assignment (JRA) problem in which items must be assigned one-to-one to placeholders while simultaneously determining a Hamiltonian cycle visiting all nodes exactly once. Extending previous exact MIP solvers with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Yuan Qilong , Michal Pavelka

In this paper, the multicommodity network flow (MCNF) problem is formulated as a mixed integer programing model which is known as NP-hard, aiming to optimize the vehicle routing and minimize the total travel cost. We explore the potential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-08 Niu Chence , Purvi Rastogi , Jaikishan Soman , Kausik Tamuli , Vinayak V. Dixit

This paper focuses on the problem of supplying the workstations of assembly lines with components during the production process. For that specific problem, this paper presents a Mixed Integer Linear Program (MILP) that aims at minimizing…

This paper introduces a novel compact mixed integer linear programming (MILP) formulation and a discretization discovery-based solution approach for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (VRPTW). We aim to solve the optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-04 Udayan Mandal , Amelia Regan , Louis Martin Rousseau , Julian Yarkony

We consider an NP-hard selective and periodic inventory routing problem (SPIRP) in a waste vegetable oil collection environment. This SPIRP arises in the context of reverse logistics where a biodiesel company has daily requirements of oil…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-22 Leopoldo E. Cárdenas-Barrón , Rafael A. Melo

A travelling thief problem (TTP) is a proxy to real-life problems such as postal collection. TTP comprises an entanglement of a travelling salesman problem (TSP) and a knapsack problem (KP) since items of KP are scattered over cities of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Majid Namazi , M. A. Hakim Newton , Conrad Sanderson , Abdul Sattar

Mixed packing and covering problems are problems that can be formulated as linear programs using only non-negative coefficients. Examples include multicommodity network flow, the Held-Karp lower bound on TSP, fractional relaxations of set…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-01-19 Neal E. Young

Mixed-Integer Programs (MIPs) are NP-hard optimization models that arise in a broad range of decision-making applications, including finance, logistics, energy systems, and network design. Although modern commercial solvers have achieved…