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In scheduling problems common in the industry and various real-world scenarios, responding in real-time to disruptive events is essential. Recent methods propose the use of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to learn policies capable of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Imanol Echeverria , Maialen Murua , Roberto Santana

Dynamic dispatching is one of the core problems for operation optimization in traditional industries such as mining, as it is about how to smartly allocate the right resources to the right place at the right time. Conventionally, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Chi Zhang , Philip Odonkor , Shuai Zheng , Hamed Khorasgani , Susumu Serita , Chetan Gupta

Urban mobility systems are transitioning toward electric, on-demand services, creating operational challenges for fleet management under energy and service-quality constraints. The Electric Dial-a-Ride Problem (E-DARP) extends the classical…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-06 Sten Elling Tingstad Jacobsen , Attila Lischka , Balázs Kulcsár , Anders Lindman

This letter investigates covert routing communications in a heterogeneous network where a source transmits confidential data to a destination with the aid of relaying nodes where each transmitter judiciously chooses one modality among…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Justin Kong , Terrence J. Moore , Fikadu T. Dagefu

The Dynamic Pickup and Delivery Problem (DPDP) is aimed at dynamically scheduling vehicles among multiple sites in order to minimize the cost when delivery orders are not known a priori. Although DPDP plays an important role in modern…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Xijun Li , Weilin Luo , Mingxuan Yuan , Jun Wang , Jiawen Lu , Jie Wang , Jinhu Lu , Jia Zeng

Existing Advanced Driver Assistance Systems primarily focus on the vehicle directly ahead, often overlooking potential risks from following vehicles. This oversight can lead to ineffective handling of high risk situations, such as high…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Dianwei Chen , Yaobang Gong , Xianfeng Yang

The Vehicle Routing Problem with Drones (VRPD) seeks to optimize the routing paths for both trucks and drones, where the trucks are responsible for delivering parcels to customer locations, and the drones are dispatched from these trucks…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Navid Mohammad Imran , Myounggyu Won

This paper targets at the problem of radio resource management for expected long-term delay-power tradeoff in vehicular communications. At each decision epoch, the road side unit observes the global network state, allocates channels and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-04 Xianfu Chen , Celimuge Wu , Honggang Zhang , Yan Zhang , Mehdi Bennis , Heli Vuojala

For NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems, it is usually difficult to find high-quality solutions in polynomial time. The design of either an exact algorithm or an approximate algorithm for these problems often requires significantly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Kun Lei , Peng Guo , Yi Wang , Xiao Wu , Wenchao Zhao

In this paper we present a new approach to tackle complex routing problems with an improved state representation that utilizes the model complexity better than previous methods. We enable this by training from temporal differences.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Ahmad Bdeir , Simon Boeder , Tim Dernedde , Kirill Tkachuk , Jonas K. Falkner , Lars Schmidt-Thieme

Complex real-life routing challenges can be modeled as variations of well-known combinatorial optimization problems. These routing problems have long been studied and are difficult to solve at scale. The particular setting may also make…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Marijn van Knippenberg , Mike Holenderski , Vlado Menkovski

Transportation occupies one-third of the amount in the logistics costs, and accordingly transportation systems largely influence the performance of the logistics system. This work presents an adaptive data-driven innovative modular approach…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Emir Zunic , Dzenana Donko , Emir Buza

Learning how to automatically solve optimization problems has the potential to provide the next big leap in optimization technology. The performance of automatically learned heuristics on routing problems has been steadily improving in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-01 André Hottung , Kevin Tierney

We consider a family of Rich Vehicle Routing Problems (RVRP) which have the particularity to combine a heterogeneous fleet with other attributes, such as backhauls, multiple depots, split deliveries, site dependency, open routes, duration…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-07 Puca Huachi Vaz Penna , Anand Subramanian , Luiz Satoru Ochi , Thibaut Vidal , Christian Prins

Recently, deep reinforcement learning (DRL) frameworks have shown potential for solving NP-hard routing problems such as the traveling salesman problem (TSP) without problem-specific expert knowledge. Although DRL can be used to solve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Minsu Kim , Jinkyoo Park , Joungho Kim

The problem of resource constrained scheduling in a dynamic and heterogeneous wireless setting is considered here. In our setup, the available limited bandwidth resources are allocated in order to serve randomly arriving service demands,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Apostolos Avranas , Marios Kountouris , Philippe Ciblat

We present a novel deep reinforcement learning method to learn construction heuristics for vehicle routing problems. In specific, we propose a Multi-Decoder Attention Model (MDAM) to train multiple diverse policies, which effectively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Liang Xin , Wen Song , Zhiguang Cao , Jie Zhang

Novel advanced policy gradient (APG) methods, such as Trust Region policy optimization and Proximal policy optimization (PPO), have become the dominant reinforcement learning algorithms because of their ease of implementation and good…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-22 J. G. Dai , Mark Gluzman

The Entrance Dependent Vehicle Routing Problem (EDVRP) is a variant of the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) where the scale of cities influences routing outcomes, necessitating consideration of their entrances. This paper addresses EDVRP in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Yixuan Fan , Haotian Xu , Mengqiao Liu , Qing Zhuo , Tao Zhang

The application of learning based methods to vehicle routing problems has emerged as a pivotal area of research in combinatorial optimization. These problems are characterized by vast solution spaces and intricate constraints, making…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Zhenwei Wang , Ruibin Bai , Tiehua Zhang