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Existing neural heuristics often train a deep architecture from scratch for each specific vehicle routing problem (VRP), ignoring the transferable knowledge across different VRP variants. This paper proposes the cross-problem learning to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Zhuoyi Lin , Yaoxin Wu , Bangjian Zhou , Zhiguang Cao , Wen Song , Yingqian Zhang , Senthilnath Jayavelu

The Team Orienteering Problem (TOP) is an attractive variant of the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP). The aim is to select customers and at the same time organize the visits for a vehicle fleet so as to maximize the collected profits and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Racha El-Hajj , Duc-Cuong Dang , Aziz Moukrim

In the \textsc{Waypoint Routing Problem} one is given an undirected capacitated and weighted graph $G$, a source-destination pair $s,t\in V(G)$ and a set $W\subseteq V(G)$, of \emph{waypoints}. The task is to find a walk which starts at the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Šimon Schierreich , Ondřej Suchý

Nowadays, the transport goods problem occupies an important place in the economic life of modern societies. The pickup and delivery problem with time windows (PDPTW) is one of the problems which a large part of the research was interested.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2010-10-06 Imen Harbaoui Dridi , Ryan Kammarti , Mekki Ksouri , Pierre Borne

The Profiled Vehicle Routing Problem (PVRP) extends the classical VRP by incorporating vehicle-client-specific preferences and constraints, reflecting real-world requirements such as zone restrictions and service-level preferences. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Chuanbo Hua , Federico Berto , Zhikai Zhao , Jiwoo Son , Changhyun Kwon , Jinkyoo Park

In the weighted partial vertex cover problem (WPVC), we are given a graph $G=(V,E)$, cost function $c:V\rightarrow N$, profit function $p:E\rightarrow N$, and positive integers $R$ and $L$. The goal is to check whether there is a subset…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Vahan Mkrtchyan , Garik Petrosyan , K. Subramani

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

The vehicle routing problem is one of the most studied combinatorial optimization topics, due to its practical importance and methodological interest. Yet, despite extensive methodological progress, many recent studies are hampered by the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Thibaut Vidal

The Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (CVRPTW) is a classic NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem widely applied in logistics distribution and transportation management. Its complexity stems from the constraints of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Linjiang Cao , Maonan Wang , Xi Xiong

This paper introduces a new routing problem referred to as the vehicle routing problem with vector profits. Given a network composed of nodes (depot/sites) and arcs connecting the nodes, the problem determines routes that depart from the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-31 Dongoo Lee , Jaemyung Ahn

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

In Capacitated Vehicle Routing with Multiple Depots (CVRP-MD) we are given a set of client locations $C$ and a set of depots $R$ located in a metric space with costs $c(i,j)$ between $u,v \in C \cup R$. Additionally, we are given a capacity…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Zachary Friggstad , Tobias Mömke

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

Truck platooning, a linking technology of trucks on the highway, has gained enormous attention in recent years due to its benefits in energy and operation cost savings. However, most existing studies on truck platooning limit their focus on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-23 Yilang Hao , Zhibin Chen , Xiaotong Sun , Lu Tong

Constraint Programming (CP) offers an intuitive, declarative framework for modeling Vehicle Routing Problems (VRP), yet classical CP models based on successor variables cannot always deal with optional visits or insertion based heuristics.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Augustin Delecluse , Pierre Schaus , Pascal Van Hentenryck

The split delivery vehicle routing problem (SDVRP) is a relaxed variant of the capacitated vehicle routing problem (CVRP) where the restriction that each customer is visited precisely once is removed. Compared with CVRP, the SDVRP allows a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-01 Nariman Torkzaban , Anousheh Gholami , John S. Baras , Bruce Golden

This work proposes a first extensive analysis of the Vehicle Routing Problem with Fractional Objective Function (vrpfof). We investigate how the principal techniques used either in the context of fractional programming or in the context of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-11 Roberto Baldacci , Andrew Lim , Emiliano Traversi , Roberto Wolfler Calvo

We define a new problem called the Vehicle Scheduling Problem (VSP). The goal is to minimize an objective function, such as the number of tardy vehicles over a transportation network subject to maintaining safety distances, meeting hard…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Mirmojtaba Gharibi , Steven L. Waslander , Raouf Boutaba

In this work we solve the Dynamic Vehicle Routing Problem (DVRP). DVRP is a modification of the Vehicle Routing Problem, in which the clients' requests (cities) number and location might not be known at the beginning of the working day…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Michał Okulewicz , Jacek Mańdziuk

The vehicle routing problem (VRP) is a fundamental NP-hard task in intelligent transportation systems with broad applications in logistics and distribution. Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) with Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) has shown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Le Tung Giang , Vu Hoang Viet , Nguyen Xuan Tung , Trinh Van Chien , Won-Joo Hwang