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A diffusion's induced transport is defined for a linear model of a Fokker-Plank equation under periodic boundary conditions in one-dimensional geometry. The flow is generated by a diffusion and a periodic deriving force induced by a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-09-04 Gershon Wolansky

This paper outlines the ideas behind developing a graph-based heuristic-driven routing algorithm designed for a particular instance of a goods transportation problem with a single good type. The proposed algorithm solves the optimization…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Mikhail Shchukin , Aymen Ben Said , Andre Lobo Teixeira

The travelling thief problem (TTP) is a well-known multi-component optimisation problem that captures the interdependence between two components: the tour across cities and the packing of items. The packing while travelling problem (PWT) is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Thilina Pathirage Don , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann

The drone-based last-mile delivery is an emerging technology to deliver parcels using drones loaded on a truck. As more and more autonomous vehicles (AVs) will be available for delivery services, an opportunity is arising to fully automate…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Navid Mohammad Imran , Sabya Mishra , Myounggyu Won

We consider non-standard Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) where the target function is not only a simple expectation of the accumulated reward. Instead, we consider rather general functionals of the joint distribution of terminal state and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Nicole Bäuerle , Tamara Göll , Anna Jaśkiewicz

We introduce and investigate properties of a variant of the semi-discrete optimal transport problem. In this problem, one is given an absolutely continuous source measure and cost function, along with a finite set which will be the support…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-13 Mohit Bansil , Jun Kitagawa

Dial-a-Ride problems have been proposed to model the challenge to consolidate passenger transportation requests with a fleet of shared vehicles. The line-based Dial-a-Ride problem (LiDARP) is a variant where the passengers are transported…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Antonio Lauerbach , Kendra Reiter , Marie Schmidt

This paper talk about the complexity of computation by Turing Machine. I take attention to the relation of symmetry and order structure of the data, and I think about the limitation of computation time. First, I make general problem named…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-09-24 Koji Kobayashi

A ride sharing problem is considered where we are given a graph, whose edges are equipped with a travel cost, plus a set of objects, each associated with a transportation request given by a pair of origin and destination nodes. A vehicle…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-06-10 Angelo Fanelli , Gianluigi Greco

A sport tournament problem is considered the Traveling Tournament Problem (TTP). One interesting type is the mirrored Traveling Tournament Problem (mTTP). The objective of the problem is to minimize either the total number of traveling or…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Tinnaluk Rutjanisarakul , Thiradet Jiarasuksakun

The Storage Location Assignment Problem (SLAP) and the Picker Routing Problem (PRP) have received significant attention in the literature due to their pivotal role in the performance of the Order Picking (OP) activity, the most…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Thibault Prunet , Nabil Absi , Diego Cattaruzza

Due to physiological variation, patients diagnosed with the same condition may exhibit divergent, but related, responses to the same treatments. Hidden Parameter Markov Decision Processes (HiP-MDPs) tackle this transfer-learning problem by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-05 Taylor Killian , George Konidaris , Finale Doshi-Velez

The Traveling Tournament Problem is a sports-scheduling problem where the goal is to minimize the total travel distance of teams playing a double round-robin tournament. The constraint 'k' is an imposed upper bound on the number of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Diptendu Chatterjee

We study a common delivery problem encountered in nowadays online food-ordering platforms: Customers order dishes online, and the restaurant delivers the food after receiving the order. Specifically, we study a problem where $k$ vehicles of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Xiangyu Guo , Shi Li , Kelin Luo , Yuhao Zhang

We consider the problem of collectively delivering some message from a specified source to a designated target location in a graph, using multiple mobile agents. Each agent has a limited energy which constrains the distance it can move.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Andreas Bärtschi , Jérémie Chalopin , Shantanu Das , Yann Disser , Barbara Geissmann , Daniel Graf , Arnaud Labourel , Matúš Mihalák

In this paper, we introduce optimal versions of a multi-port based teleportation scheme allowing to send a large amount of quantum information. We fully characterise probabilistic and deterministic case by presenting expressions for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-18 Marek Mozrzymas , Michał Studziński , Piotr Kopszak

Routing problems are a class of combinatorial problems with many practical applications. Recently, end-to-end deep learning methods have been proposed to learn approximate solution heuristics for such problems. In contrast, classical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Wouter Kool , Herke van Hoof , Joaquim Gromicho , Max Welling

In this article, we present a novel formulation for the load-dependent traveling salesman problem (LD-TSP), in which travel cost (or energy expended) depends on the vehicle's current load. This problem is relevant for package delivery and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Deepak Prakash Kumar , Saurabh Belgaonkar , Sivakumar Rathinam , Swaroop Darbha , David W. Casbeer

Computing optimal transport (OT) for general high-dimensional data has been a long-standing challenge. Despite much progress, most of the efforts including neural network methods have been focused on the static formulation of the OT…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-12 Chen Xu , Xiuyuan Cheng , Yao Xie

This study explores a pick-and-toss (PT) as an alternative to pick-and-place (PP), allowing a robot to extend its range and improve task efficiency. Although PT boosts efficiency in object arrangement, the placement environment critically…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Takuya Kiyokawa , Mahiro Muta , Weiwei Wan , Kensuke Harada