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Timely delivery and optimal routing remain fundamental challenges in the modern logistics industry. Building on prior work that considers single-package delivery across networks using multiple types of collaborative agents with restricted…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Simon Bartlmae , Andreas Hene , Joshua Könen , Heiko Röglin

Delivery Time Estimation (DTE) is a crucial component of the e-commerce supply chain that predicts delivery time based on merchant information, sending address, receiving address, and payment time. Accurate DTE can boost platform revenue…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Lei Zhang , Mingliang Wang , Xin Zhou , Xingyu Wu , Yiming Cao , Yonghui Xu , Lizhen Cui , Zhiqi Shen

Traffic speed forecasting is one of the core problems in transportation systems. For a more accurate prediction, recent studies started using not only the temporal speed patterns but also the spatial information on the road network through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Kyungeun Lee , Wonjong Rhee

Accurate and timely traffic flow forecasting is crucial for intelligent transportation systems. This paper presents a novel deep learning model, the Spatial-Temporal Unified Graph Attention Network (STGAtt). By leveraging a unified graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Zhuding Liang , Jianxun Cui , Qingshuang Zeng , Feng Liu , Nenad Filipovic , Tijana Geroski

Existing traffic volume estimation methods typically address either forecasting traffic on sensor-equipped roads or spatially imputing missing volumes using nearby sensors. While forecasting models generally disregard unmonitored roads by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Léo Hein , Giovanni de Nunzio , Giovanni Chierchia , Aurélie Pirayre , Laurent Najman

Microtransit and other flexible transit fleet services can reduce costs by incorporating transfers. However, transfers are costly to users if they must get off a vehicle and wait at a stop for another pickup. A mixed integer linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-14 Zhexi Fu , Joseph Y. J. Chow

Traditional decision and planning frameworks for self-driving vehicles (SDVs) scale poorly in new scenarios, thus they require tedious hand-tuning of rules and parameters to maintain acceptable performance in all foreseeable cases.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Peide Cai , Hengli Wang , Yuxiang Sun , Ming Liu

Multivariate time series forecasting is a challenging task because the data involves a mixture of long- and short-term patterns, with dynamic spatio-temporal dependencies among variables. Existing graph neural networks (GNN) typically model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Zhuoling Li , Gaowei Zhang , Lingyu Xu , Jie Yu

This paper presents a non-iterative approach for finding the assignment of heterogeneous robots to efficiently execute online Pickup and Just-In-Time Delivery (PJITD) tasks with optimal resource utilization. The PJITD assignments problem is…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Shridhar Velhal , Srikrishna B R , Mukunda Bharatheesha , Suresh Sundaram

Dynamic Graph Neural Network (DGNN) has shown a strong capability of learning dynamic graphs by exploiting both spatial and temporal features. Although DGNN has recently received considerable attention by AI community and various DGNN…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Fahao Chen , Peng Li , Celimuge Wu

Industry 4.0 is a concept that assists companies in developing a modern supply chain (MSC) system when they are faced with a dynamic process. Because Industry 4.0 focuses on mobility and real-time integration, it is a good framework for a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-08 Maryam Abdirad , Krishna Krishnan , Deepak Gupta

Car-sharing issue is a popular research field in sharing economy. In this paper, we investigate the car-sharing relocation problem (CSRP) under uncertain demands. Normally, the real customer demands follow complicating probability…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-23 Xiaoming Li , Chun Wang , Xiao Huang

Modelling dynamic traffic patterns and especially the continuously changing dependencies between different base stations, which previous studies overlook, is challenging. Traditional algorithms struggle to process large volumes of data and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yini Fang

We propose a novel centralized and decoupled algorithm, DDM, for solving multi-robot path planning problems in grid graphs, targeting on-demand and automated warehouse-like settings. Two settings are studied: a traditional one whose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Shuai D. Han , Jingjin Yu

The problem of identifying the k-shortest paths KSPs for short in a dynamic road network is essential to many location-based services. Road networks are dynamic in the sense that the weights of the edges in the corresponding graph…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Ziqiang Yu , Xiaohui Yu , Nick Koudas , Yueting Chen , Yang Liu

Ride-hailing demand prediction is an essential task in spatial-temporal data mining. Accurate Ride-hailing demand prediction can help to pre-allocate resources, improve vehicle utilization and user experiences. Graph Convolutional Networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Weiguo Pian , Yingbo Wu , Xiangmou Qu , Junpeng Cai , Ziyi Kou

Companies are eager to have a smart supply chain especially when they have a dynamic system. Industry 4.0 is a concept which concentrates on mobility and real-time integration. Thus, it can be considered as a necessary component that has to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Maryam Abdirad , Krishna Krishnan , Deepak Gupta

In this paper, we propose a distributed algorithm, called Directed-Distributed Gradient Descent (D-DGD), to solve multi-agent optimization problems over directed graphs. Existing algorithms mostly deal with similar problems under the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-02 Chenguang Xi , Qiong Wu , Usman A. Khan

Automated guided vehicles (AGVs) are widely used in various industries, and scheduling and routing them in a conflict-free manner is crucial to their efficient operation. We propose a loop-based algorithm that solves the online,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Louis Stubbe , Jens Goemaere , Jan Goedgebeur

With the rapid development of the e-commerce industry, the logistics network is experiencing unprecedented pressure. The traditional static routing strategy most time cannot tolerate the traffic congestion and fluctuating retail demand. In…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Zhiming Xue , Sichen Zhao , Yalun Qi , Xianling Zeng , Zihan Yu