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Robotics · Computer Science 2015-08-10 Pete Trautman

Motivated by a transit line planning problem in transportation systems, we investigate the following capacitated assignment problem under a budget constraint. Our model involves $L$ bins and $P$ items. Each bin $l$ has a utilization cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-11 Hongyi Jiang , Samitha Samaranayake

This paper proposes a novel freight multimodal transport problem with buses and drones, where buses are responsible for transporting parcels to lockers at bus stops for storage, while drones are used to deliver each parcel from the locker…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-06-13 E Su , Hu Qin , Jiliu Li , Rui Zhang

Considering the evolution of the food industry and its challenges, like high perishability, managing the food industry supply chain is a key focus for researchers and decision-makers. Uncertainty in decision-making has gained importance,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-11 Babak Javadi , Zeinab Salimzadeh , Amir Hossein Akbari , Mahla Yadegari , Mohammadreza Abdali

Stochastic programming provides a natural framework for modeling sequential optimization problems under uncertainty; however, the efficient solution of large-scale multistage stochastic programs remains a challenge, especially in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Tushar Rathi , Benjamin P. Riley , Angela Flores-Quiroz , Qi Zhang

This paper considers a crowdsourced delivery (CSD) system that effectively utilizes the existing trips to fulfill parcel delivery as a matching problem between CSD drivers and delivery tasks. This matching problem has two major challenges.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-05 Takashi Akamatsu , Yuki Oyama

Matching demand with supply in crowdsourcing logistics platforms must contend with uncertain worker participation. Motivated by this challenge, we study a two-stage "recommend-to-match" problem under stochastic supplier rejections, where…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Haoyue Liu , Sheng Liu , Mingyao Qi

Integer and mixed-integer nonlinear programming (INLP, MINLP) are central to logistics, energy, and scheduling, but remain computationally challenging. This survey examines how machine learning and reinforcement learning can enhance exact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Morteza Kimiaei , Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Brian Olimba

In this paper, we investigate the problem of a last-mile delivery service that selects up to $N$ available vehicles to deliver $M$ packages from a centralized depot to $M$ delivery locations. The objective of the last-mile delivery service…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Meera Ratnagiri , Clare O'Dwyer , Logan E. Beaver , Heeseung Bang , Behdad Chalaki , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

This paper deals with a distributed Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) set-up arising in several control applications. Agents of a network aim to minimize the sum of local linear cost functions subject to both individual constraints…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-12 Andrea Camisa , Ivano Notarnicola , Giuseppe Notarstefano

This paper presents a solver-friendly logic-based mixed-integer nonlinear programming model (LB-MINLP) to solve economic dispatch (ED) problems considering disjoint operating zones and valve-point effects. A simultaneous consideration of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-15 Mahdi Pourakbari-Kasmaei , Mahmud Fotuhi-Firuzabad , Jose Roberto Sanches Mantovani

In edge intelligence systems, deep neural network (DNN) partitioning and data offloading can provide real-time task inference for resource-constrained mobile devices. However, the inference time of DNNs is typically uncertain and cannot be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Zhaojun Nan , Yunchu Han , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu

For clustering of an undirected graph, this paper presents an exact algorithm for the maximization of modularity density, a more complicated criterion to overcome drawbacks of the well-known modularity. The problem can be interpreted as the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Keisuke Sato , Yoichi Izunaga

This brief deals with the satisfaction of the daily cooling demand by a hybrid system that consists of a vapour-compression refrigeration cycle and a thermal energy storage (TES) unit, based on phase change materials. The addition of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-08 G. Bejarano , D. Rodríguez , J. M. Lemos , M. Vargas , M. G. Ortega

Meal delivery services provided by platforms with integrated delivery systems are becoming increasingly popular. This paper adopts a rolling horizon approach to solve the meal delivery routing problem (MDRP). To improve delivery efficiency…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-10 Lejun Zhou , Anke Ye , Simon Hu

We address a new prize-collecting problem of routing commodities in a given network with hub and non-hub nodes, in which the service of the non-hub nodes will be outsourced to third-party carriers. The problem is modeled as a Stackelberg…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Elena Fernandez , Ivana Ljubic , Nicolas Zerega

This paper addresses the single-item single-stocking location stochastic lot sizing problem under the $(s, S) $ policy. We first present a mixed integer non-linear programming (MINLP) formulation for determining near-optimal $(s, S)$ policy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-17 Mengyuan Xiang , Roberto Rossi , Belen Martin-Barragan , S. Armagan Tarim

This paper is a study of an application-based model in profit-maximizing multi-vehicle pickup and delivery selection problem (PPDSP). The graph-theoretic model proposed by existing studies of PPDSP is based on transport requests to define…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Aolong Zha , Qiong Chang , Naoto Imura , Katsuhiro Nishinari

Optimal planning with respect to learned neural network (NN) models in continuous action and state spaces using mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) is a challenging task for branch-and-bound solvers due to the poor linear relaxation of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Buser Say , Scott Sanner , Sylvie Thiébaux

This paper extends our previous work in [1],[2], on optimal scheduling of autonomous vehicle arrivals at intersections, from one to a grid of intersections. A scalable distributed Mixed Integer Linear Program (MILP) is devised that solves…

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