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Production planning must account for uncertainty in a production system, arising from fluctuating demand forecasts. Therefore, this article focuses on the integration of updated customer demand into the rolling horizon planning cycle. We…

Econometrics · Economics 2024-09-27 Manuel Schlenkrich , Wolfgang Seiringer , Klaus Altendorfer , Sophie N. Parragh

Simultaneous multi vibroseis vehicle operations are central to modern land seismic exploration and can be modeled as a Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP). A critical distinction from classical VRPs, however, is the need for a minimum start-time…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Kexin Zhu , Jialong Shi , Jianyong Sun , Heng Zhou , Mingen Kuang , Ye Fan

We consider the vehicle routing problem with stochastic demands (VRPSD) on tree structured networks with a single depot. The problem we are concerned with in this paper is to find a set of tours for the vehicle with minimum expected length.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-23 Shalabh Vidyarthi , Kaushal K Shukla

This study presents optimization problems to jointly determine long-term network design, mid-term fleet sizing strategy, and short-term routing and ridesharing matching in shared autonomous vehicle (SAV) systems with pre-booked and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-19 Riki Kawase

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

This paper introduces a reinforcement learning approach to optimize the Stochastic Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (SVRP), focusing on reducing travel costs in goods delivery. We develop a novel SVRP formulation that accounts for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Zangir Iklassov , Ikboljon Sobirov , Ruben Solozabal , Martin Takac

This paper presents a model for a vehicle routing problem in which customer demands are stochastic and vehicles are divided into compartments. The problem is motivated by the needs of certain agricultural cooperatives that produce various…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-24 Juan Carlos Gonçalves-Dosantos , Laura Davila-Pena , Balbina Casas-Méndez

This paper studies robust variants of an extended model of the classical Heterogeneous Vehicle Routing Problem (HVRP), where a mixed fleet of vehicles with different capacities, availabilities, fixed costs and routing costs is used to serve…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-19 Anirudh Subramanyam , Panagiotis P. Repoussis , Chrysanthos E. Gounaris

We investigate a structural decomposition for the capacitated vehicle routing problem (CVRP) based on vehicle-to-customer "assignment" and visits "sequencing" decision variables. We show that an heuristic search focused on assignment…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-19 Túlio A. M. Toffolo , Thibaut Vidal , Tony Wauters

The Mixed-Shelves Picker Routing Problem (MSPRP) is a fundamental challenge in warehouse logistics, where pickers must navigate a mixed-shelves environment to retrieve SKUs efficiently. Traditional heuristics and optimization-based…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Laurin Luttmann , Lin Xie

We introduce the multimodal car- and ride-sharing problem (MMCRP), in which a pool of cars is used to cover a set of ride requests while uncovered requests are assigned to other modes of transport (MOT). A car's route consists of one or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Miriam Enzi , Sophie N. Parragh , David Pisinger , Matthias Prandtstetter

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 Multi-Objective Vehicle Routing Problem (MOVRP) is a complex optimization problem in the transportation and logistics industry. This paper proposes a novel approach to the MOVRP that aims to create routes that consider drivers' and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Juan Pablo Mesa , Alejandro Montoya , Raul Ramos-Pollán , Mauricio Toro

VRP (Vehicle Routing Problem) is an NP hard problem, and it has attracted a lot of research interest. In contexts where vehicles have limited carrying capacity, such as volume and weight but needed to deliver items at various locations.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-22 Muhammad Wildan Abdul Hakim , Syarifah Rosita Dewi , Yurio Windiatmoko , Umar Abdul Aziz

The min-max vehicle routing problem (min-max VRP) traverses all given customers by assigning several routes and aims to minimize the length of the longest route. Recently, reinforcement learning (RL)-based sequential planning methods have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Zhi Zheng , Shunyu Yao , Zhenkun Wang , Xialiang Tong , Mingxuan Yuan , Ke Tang

The Moving Target Vehicle Routing Problem (MT-VRP) seeks trajectories for several agents that intercept a set of moving targets, subject to speed, time window, and capacity constraints. We introduce an exact algorithm, Branch-and-Price with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Anoop Bhat , Geordan Gutow , Zhongqiang Ren , Sivakumar Rathinam , Howie Choset

We present an end-to-end framework for solving the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) using reinforcement learning. In this approach, we train a single model that finds near-optimal solutions for problem instances sampled from a given…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Mohammadreza Nazari , Afshin Oroojlooy , Lawrence V. Snyder , Martin Takáč

Motivated by the promising advances of deep-reinforcement learning (DRL) applied to cooperative multi-agent systems we propose a model and learning procedure to solve the Capacitated Multi-Vehicle Routing Problem (CMVRP) with fixed fleet…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Jose Manuel Vera , Andres G. Abad

We consider a multiple depot, multiple vehicle routing problem with fuel constraints. We are given a set of targets, a set of depots and a set of homogeneous vehicles, one for each depot. The depots are also allowed to act as refueling…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-08-26 Kaarthik Sundar , Saravanan Venkatachalam , Sivakumar Rathinam

Vehicle Routing Problem with Private fleet and common Carrier (VRPPC) has been proposed to help a supplier manage package delivery services from a single depot to multiple customers. Most of the existing VRPPC works consider deterministic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Suttinee Sawadsitang , Siwei Jiang , Dusit Niyato , Ping Wang