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We study a stochastic variant of the vehicle routing problem arising in the context of domestic donor collection services. The problem we consider combines the following attributes. Customers requesting services are variable, in the sense…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-15 Mohsen Dastpak , Fausto Errico , Ola Jabali

Unlike its deterministic counterpart, static and stochastic vehicle routing problems (SS-VRP) aim at modeling and solving real-life operational problems by considering uncertainty on data. We consider the SS-VRPTW-CR introduced in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-08-11 Michael Saint-Guillain , Christine Solnon , Yves Deville

This paper presents a new branch-and-cut algorithm based on infeasible path elimination for the three-dimensional loading capacitated vehicle routing problem (3L-CVRP) with different loading problem variants. We show that a previously…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-26 Felix Tamke , Florian Linß , Leopold Kuttner , Udo Buscher

The paper addresses Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (CVRP) in the context of fuel delivery to gas stations. The CVRP aims to minimize total travel distance for a fleet with limited capacity. Fuel delivery, however, introduces unique…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-13 Vitalii Naumov

Existing deep reinforcement learning (DRL) based methods for solving the capacitated vehicle routing problem (CVRP) intrinsically cope with homogeneous vehicle fleet, in which the fleet is assumed as repetitions of a single vehicle. Hence,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Jingwen Li , Yining Ma , Ruize Gao , Zhiguang Cao , Andrew Lim , Wen Song , Jie Zhang

In this paper, we propose a new dataset of Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem instances which are up to two orders of magnitude larger than those in the currently used benchmarks. Despite these sizes might not have an immediate application…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Luca Accorsi , Daniele Vigo

The Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (CVRP) underpins modern last-mile logistics. Current Neural Combinatorial Optimization (NCO) methods construct CVRP solutions autoregressively, inheriting sequential decoding bottlenecks, sensitivity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Samuel J. K. Chin , Maximilian Schiffer

The cutting plane method is a key technique for successful branch-and-cut and branch-price-and-cut algorithms that find the exact optimal solutions for various vehicle routing problems (VRPs). Among various cuts, the rounded capacity…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Hyeonah Kim , Jinkyoo Park , Changhyun Kwon

The rapid growth of online retail and e-commerce has made effective and efficient Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) solutions essential. To meet rising demand, companies are adding more depots, which changes the VRP problem to a complex…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Saeed Nasehi , Farhana Choudhury , Egemen Tanin , Majid Sarvi

The Vehicle Routing Problem with pickups, deliveries and spatiotemporal service constraints ($VRPPDSTC$) is a quite challenging algorithmic problem that can be dealt with in either an offline or an online fashion. In this work, we focus on…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Spyros Kontogiannis , Andreas Paraskevopoulos , Christos Zaroliagis

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

Ising machines are expected to solve combinatorial optimization problems faster than the existing integer programming solvers. These problems, particularly those encountered in practical situations, typically involve inequality constraints.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-05 Hiroshi Kanai , Masashi Yamashita , Kotaro Tanahashi , Shu Tanaka

We present a novel framework that combines machine learning with mixed-integer optimization to solve the Capacitated Location-Routing Problem (CLRP). The CLRP is a classical NP-hard problem that integrates strategic facility location with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Waquar Kaleem , Doyoung Lee , Changhyun Kwon , Anirudh Subramanyam

In this paper, we are concerned with the automated exchange of orders between logistics companies in a marketplace platform to optimize total revenues. We introduce a novel multi-agent approach to this problem, focusing on the Collaborative…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Paul Mingzheng Tang , Ba Phong Tran , Hoong Chuin Lau

In this short paper, we study the capacity-constrained vehicle routing problem (CVRP) and its solution by randomized Monte Carlo methods. For solving CVRP we use some pseudorandom number generators commonly used in practice. We use linear,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-13 İbrahim Ethem Demirci , Şaziye Ece Özdemir , Oğuz Yayla

In this paper, we study the Maximum-Profit Routing Problem with Variable Supply (MPRP-VS). This is a more general version of the Maximum-Profit Public Transportation Route Planning Problem, or simply Maximum-Profit Routing Problem (MPRP),…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Bogdan Armaselu

We present a unified framework for minimizing average completion time for many seemingly disparate online scheduling problems, such as the traveling repairperson problems (TRP), dial-a-ride problems (DARP), and scheduling on unrelated…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Marcin Bienkowski , Artur Kraska , Hsiang-Hsuan Liu

For many kinds of vehicle routing problems (VRPs), a popular heuristic approach involves constructing a Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) solution, referred to as a long tour, then partitioning segments of the solution into routes for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Ethan Gibbons , Mario Ventresca , Beatrice M. Ombuki-Berman

This paper proposes a quantum algorithm for the capacitated vehicle routing problem with time windows (CVRPTW) based on Grover Search framework. This problem is often faced by Postal services in the context of package delivery or other…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Imran Meghazi , Éric Bourreau

We present a quasi polynomial time approximation scheme (Q-PTAS) for the capacitated vehicle routing problem (CVRP) on $n$ points in the Euclidean plane for arbitrary capacity $c$. The running time is $n^{f(\epsilon)\cdot\log\log n}$ for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-22 René Sitters