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Reinforcement learning has recently shown promise in learning quality solutions in many combinatorial optimization problems. In particular, the attention-based encoder-decoder models show high effectiveness on various routing problems,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-06 Aigerim Bogyrbayeva , Taehyun Yoon , Hanbum Ko , Sungbin Lim , Hyokun Yun , Changhyun Kwon

We consider a dynamic vehicle routing problem with time windows and stochastic customers (DS-VRPTW), such that customers may request for services as vehicles have already started their tours. To solve this problem, the goal is to provide a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-02-09 Michael Saint-Guillain , Yves Deville , Christine Solnon

The Vehicle Routing Problem with Simultaneous Pickup-Delivery and Time Windows (VRPSPDTW) has attracted much research interest in the last decade, due to its wide application in modern logistics. Since VRPSPDTW is NP-hard and exact methods…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Shengcai Liu , Ke Tang , Xin Yao

This study examines the potential impact of reinforcement learning (RL)-enabled autonomous vehicles (AV) on urban traffic flow in a mixed traffic environment. We focus on a simplified day-to-day route choice problem in a multi-agent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Ahmet Onur Akman , Anastasia Psarou , Zoltán György Varga , Grzegorz Jamróz , Rafał Kucharski

The vehicle routing problem has great importance and application in transportation and supply chain management. In this case, there are several supply requests in a transportation network. The main goal is to allocate customers to available…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-10 H. Bigdeli , S. M. S. Mirdamadi , A. Deaconu , J. Tayyebi

Recent researches show that machine learning has the potential to learn better heuristics than the one designed by human for solving combinatorial optimization problems. The deep neural network is used to characterize the input instance for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Bo Peng , Jiahai Wang , Zizhen Zhang

This study addresses a gap in the utilization of Reinforcement Learning (RL) and Machine Learning (ML) techniques in solving the Stochastic Vehicle Routing Problem (SVRP) that involves the challenging task of optimizing vehicle routes under…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Zangir Iklassov , Ikboljon Sobirov , Ruben Solozabal , Martin Takac

This study introduces the Territory Design for Dynamic Multi-Period Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (TD-DMPVRPTW), motivated by a real-world application at a food company's distribution center. This problem deals with the design…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Hernán Lespay , Karol Suchan

Multi-depot vehicle routing problems (MDVRPs) are prevalent in a variety of practical applications. However, they are computationally challenging to solve due to their inherent complexity. This paper proposes an effective hybrid algorithm…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Zhenyu Lei , Jin-Kao Hao

The Orienteering Problem with Time Windows (OPTW) is a combinatorial optimization problem where the goal is to maximize the total score collected from different visited locations. The application of neural network models to combinatorial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Ricardo Gama , Hugo L. Fernandes

In this paper we present distributed and adaptive algorithms for motion coordination of a group of m autonomous vehicles. The vehicles operate in a convex environment with bounded velocity and must service demands whose time of arrival,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Marco Pavone , Emilio Frazzoli , Francesco Bullo

Vehicular edge computing has recently been proposed to support computation-intensive applications in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) such as self-driving cars and augmented reality. Despite progress in this area, significant…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-20 Bach Long Nguyen , Duong D. Nguyen , Hung X. Nguyen , Duy T. Ngo , Markus Wagner

We derive a learning framework to generate routing/pickup policies for a fleet of autonomous vehicles tasked with servicing stochastically appearing requests on a city map. We focus on policies that 1) give rise to coordination amongst the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Daniel Garces , Sushmita Bhattacharya , Stephanie Gil , Dimitri Bertsekas

Order dispatching and driver repositioning (also known as fleet management) in the face of spatially and temporally varying supply and demand are central to a ride-sharing platform marketplace. Hand-crafting heuristic solutions that account…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-27 John Holler , Risto Vuorio , Zhiwei Qin , Xiaocheng Tang , Yan Jiao , Tiancheng Jin , Satinder Singh , Chenxi Wang , Jieping Ye

The worldwide growth of e-commerce has created new challenges for logistics companies, one of which is being able to deliver products quickly and at low cost, which reflects directly in the way of sorting packages, needing to eliminate…

This paper proposes an effective and novel multiagent deep reinforcement learning (MADRL)-based method for solving the joint virtual network function (VNF) placement and routing (P&R), where multiple service requests with differentiated…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Shaoyang Wang , Chau Yuen , Wei Ni , Guan Yong Liang , Tiejun Lv

Truck platooning, a linking technology of trucks on the highway, has gained enormous attention in recent years due to its benefits in energy and operation cost savings. However, most existing studies on truck platooning limit their focus on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-23 Yilang Hao , Zhibin Chen , Xiaotong Sun , Lu Tong

Improving the efficiency of dispatching orders to vehicles is a research hotspot in online ride-hailing systems. Most of the existing solutions for order-dispatching are centralized controlling, which require to consider all possible…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Ming Zhou , Jiarui Jin , Weinan Zhang , Zhiwei Qin , Yan Jiao , Chenxi Wang , Guobin Wu , Yong Yu , Jieping Ye

Training self-driving cars is often challenging since they require a vast amount of labeled data in multiple real-world contexts, which is computationally and memory intensive. Researchers often resort to driving simulators to train the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Avinash Amballa , Advaith P. , Pradip Sasmal , Sumohana Channappayya

Autonomous multi-agent systems such as hospital robots and package delivery drones often operate in highly uncertain environments and are expected to achieve complex temporal task objectives while ensuring safety. While learning-based…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Sheryl Paul , Anand Balakrishnan , Xin Qin , Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh