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We consider an orienteering problem (OP) where an agent needs to visit a series (possibly a subset) of depots, from which the maximal accumulated profits are desired within given limited time budget. Different from most existing works where…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Zhibei Ma , Kai Yin , Lantao Liu , Gaurav S. Sukhatme

Dynamic Multi-objective Optimization Problems (DMOPs) refer to optimization problems that objective functions will change with time. Solving DMOPs implies that the Pareto Optimal Set (POS) at different moments can be accurately found, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Min Jiang , Weizhen Hu , Liming Qiu , Minghui Shi , Kay Chen Tan

In services such as retail audits and urban infrastructure monitoring, a platform dispatches rewarded, location-based micro-tasks to mobile workers traveling along personal origin-destination (OD) trips under hard time budgets. As requests…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Zhibin Wu , Songhao Shen , Yufeng Zhou , Qin Lei

Given a graph, the minimum dominating set (MinDS) problem is to identify a smallest set $D$ of vertices such that every vertex not in $D$ is adjacent to at least one vertex in $D$. The MinDS problem is a classic $\mathcal{NP}$-hard problem…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Enqiang Zhu , Yu Zhang , Shengzhi Wang , Darren Strash , Chanjuan Liu

The Steiner Team Orienteering Problem (STOP) is defined on a digraph in which arcs are associated with traverse times, and whose vertices are labeled as either mandatory or profitable, being the latter provided with rewards (profits). Given…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-06 Lucas Assunção , Geraldo Robson Mateus

The orienteering problem with time windows and variable profits (OPTWVP) is common in many real-world applications and involves continuous time variables. Current approaches fail to develop an efficient solver for this orienteering problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Songqun Gao , Zanxi Ruan , Patrick Floor , Marco Roveri , Luigi Palopoli , Daniele Fontanelli

A fundamental variant of the classical traveling salesman problem (TSP) is the so-called multiple TSP (mTSP), where a set of $m$ salesmen jointly visit all cities from a set of $n$ cities. The mTSP models many important real-life…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Kristóf Bérczi , Matthias Mnich , Roland Vincze

Given a graph with edge costs and vertex profits and given a budget B, the Orienteering Problem asks for a walk of cost at most B of maximum profit. Additionally, each profit may be given with a time window within it can be collected by the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Kevin Buchin , Mart Hagedoorn , Guangping Li , Carolin Rehs

Graph routing problems play a vital role in web-related networks, where finding optimal paths across graphs is essential for efficient data transmission and content delivery. Classic routing formulations such as the Traveling Salesman…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Shiyan Liu , Bohan Tan , Zhiguang Cao , Yan Jin

Multi-objective orienteering problems (MO-OPs) are classical multi-objective routing problems and have received a lot of attention in the past decades. This study seeks to solve MO-OPs through a problem-decomposition framework, that is, a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Wei Liu , Rui Wang , Tao Zhang , Kaiwen Li , Wenhua Li , Hisao Ishibuchi

In this paper, multi-snapshot Newtonized orthogonal matching pursuit (MNOMP) algorithm is proposed to deal with the line spectrum estimation with multiple measurement vectors (MMVs). MNOMP has the low computation complexity and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Jiang Zhu , Lin Han , Rick S. Blum , Zhiwei Xu

We consider a large family of problems in which an ordering (or, more precisely, a chain of subsets) of a finite set must be chosen to minimize some weighted sum of costs. This family includes variations of Min Sum Set Cover (MSSC), several…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Felix Happach , Lisa Hellerstein , Thomas Lidbetter

This paper presents a novel and efficient heuristic framework for approximating the solutions to the multiple traveling salesmen problem (m-TSP) and other variants on the TSP. The approach adopted in this paper is an extension of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-15 Mayank Baranwal , Brian Roehl , Srinivasa M. Salapaka

This paper considers multi-goal motion planning in unstructured, obstacle-rich environments where a robot is required to reach multiple regions while avoiding collisions. The planned motions must also satisfy the differential constraints…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Yuanjie Lu , Erion Plaku

This paper introduces a new formulation that finds the optimum for the Moving-Target Traveling Salesman Problem (MT-TSP), which seeks to find a shortest path for an agent, that starts at a depot, visits a set of moving targets exactly once…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Allen George Philip , Zhongqiang Ren , Sivakumar Rathinam , Howie Choset

The Multiple-Depot Split Delivery Vehicle Routing Problem (MD-SDVRP) is a challenging problem with broad applications in logistics. The goal is to serve customers' demand using a fleet of capacitated vehicles located in multiple depots,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Jingyang Zhao , Yonghang Su , Mingyu Xiao

We address the Budgeted Maximum Coverage Problem (BMCP), which is a natural and more practical extension of the standard 0-1 knapsack problem and the set cover problem. Given m elements with nonnegative weights, n subsets of elements with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Jianrong Zhou , Jiongzhi Zheng , Kun He

Solving practical multi-depot vehicle routing problems (MDVRP) is a challenging optimization task central to modern logistics, increasingly driven by e-commerce. To address the MDVRP's computational complexity, neural-based combinatorial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Arthur Corrêa , Paulo Nascimento , Samuel Moniz

In this paper we present a new population based metaheuristic called the fixed set search (FSS). The proposed approach represents a method of adding a learning mechanism to the greedy randomized adaptive search procedure (GRASP). The basic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Raka Jovanovic , Milan Tuba , Stefan Voss

Robotic systems often require a team of robots to collectively visit multiple targets while optimizing competing objectives, such as total travel cost and makespan. This setting can be formulated as the Multi-Objective Multiple Traveling…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Fengxiaoxiao Li , Xiao Mao , Mingfeng Fan , Yifeng Zhang , Yi Li , Tanishq Duhan , Guillaume Sartoretti