Vehicle Routing

Author : Paolo Toth
Publisher : SIAM
ISBN 13 : 1611973597
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vehicle Routing written by Paolo Toth and published by SIAM. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vehicle routing problems, among the most studied in combinatorial optimization, arise in many practical contexts (freight distribution and collection, transportation, garbage collection, newspaper delivery, etc.). Operations researchers have made significant developments in the algorithms for their solution, and Vehicle Routing: Problems, Methods, and Applications, Second Edition reflects these advances. The text of the new edition is either completely new or significantly revised and provides extensive and complete state-of-the-art coverage of vehicle routing by those who have done most of the innovative research in the area; it emphasizes methodology related to specific classes of vehicle routing problems and, since vehicle routing is used as a benchmark for all new solution techniques, contains a complete overview of current solutions to combinatorial optimization problems. It also includes several chapters on important and emerging applications, such as disaster relief and green vehicle routing.

Author : Paolo Toth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780898714982
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vehicle Routing Problem written by Paolo Toth and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bruce L. Golden
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387777784
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vehicle Routing Problem: Latest Advances and New Challenges written by Bruce L. Golden and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-07-20 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a unified and carefully developed presentation, this book systematically examines recent developments in VRP. The book focuses on a portfolio of significant technical advances that have evolved over the past few years for modeling and solving vehicle routing problems and VRP variations. Reflecting the most recent scholarship, this book is written by one of the top research scholars in Vehicle Routing and is one of the most important books in VRP to be published in recent times.

Author : Marlin Wolf Ulmer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319555111
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Approximate Dynamic Programming for Dynamic Vehicle Routing written by Marlin Wolf Ulmer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-04-19 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a straightforward overview for every researcher interested in stochastic dynamic vehicle routing problems (SDVRPs). The book is written for both the applied researcher looking for suitable solution approaches for particular problems as well as for the theoretical researcher looking for effective and efficient methods of stochastic dynamic optimization and approximate dynamic programming (ADP). To this end, the book contains two parts. In the first part, the general methodology required for modeling and approaching SDVRPs is presented. It presents adapted and new, general anticipatory methods of ADP tailored to the needs of dynamic vehicle routing. Since stochastic dynamic optimization is often complex and may not always be intuitive on first glance, the author accompanies the ADP-methodology with illustrative examples from the field of SDVRPs. The second part of this book then depicts the application of the theory to a specific SDVRP. The process starts from the real-world application. The author describes a SDVRP with stochastic customer requests often addressed in the literature, and then shows in detail how this problem can be modeled as a Markov decision process and presents several anticipatory solution approaches based on ADP. In an extensive computational study, he shows the advantages of the presented approaches compared to conventional heuristics. To allow deep insights in the functionality of ADP, he presents a comprehensive analysis of the ADP approaches.

Author : Houda Derbel
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303045312X
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Green Transportation and New Advances in Vehicle Routing Problems written by Houda Derbel and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents recent work that analyzes general issues of green transportation. The contributed chapters consider environmental objectives in transportation, including topics such as battery swap stations for electric vehicles, efficient home healthcare routing, waste collection, and various vehicle routing problems. The content will be valuable for researchers and postgraduate students in computer science, operations research, and urban planning.

Author : Francisco Baptista Pereira
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540851526
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bio-inspired Algorithms for the Vehicle Routing Problem written by Francisco Baptista Pereira and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-09-10 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vehicle routing problem (VRP) is one of the most famous combinatorial optimization problems. In simple terms, the goal is to determine a set of routes with overall minimum cost that can satisfy several geographical scattered - mands. A ?eet of vehicles located in one or more depots is available to ful?ll the requests. A large number of variants exist, adding di?erent constraints to the original de?nition. Some examples are related to the number of depots, the ordering for visiting the customers or to time windows specifying a desirable period to arrive to a given location. The original version of this problem was proposed by Dantzig and Ramser in 1959 [1]. In their seminal paper, the authors address the calculation of a set of optimal routes for a ?eet of gasoline delivery trucks. Since then, the VRP has attractedtheattentionofalargenumberofresearchers.Aconsiderablepartofits success is a consequence of its practical interest, as it resembles many real-world problems faced everyday by distribution and transportation companies, just to mention a few applications areas. In this context, the development of e?cient optimization techniques is crucial. They are able to provide new and enhanced solutionstologisticoperations,andmaythereforeleadtoasubstantialreduction in costs for companies. Additionally, and from a research oriented perspective, the VRP is a challenging NP-hard problem providing excellent benchmarks to access the e?ciency of new global optimization algorithms.

Author : Nacima Labadie
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119136776
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metaheuristics for Vehicle Routing Problems written by Nacima Labadie and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-02-10 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is dedicated to metaheuristics as applied to vehicle routing problems. Several implementations are given as illustrative examples, along with applications to several typical vehicle routing problems. As a first step, a general presentation intends to make the reader more familiar with the related field of logistics and combinatorial optimization. This preamble is completed with a description of significant heuristic methods classically used to provide feasible solutions quickly, and local improvement moves widely used to search for enhanced solutions. The overview of these fundamentals allows appreciating the core of the work devoted to an analysis of metaheuristic methods for vehicle routing problems. Those methods are exposed according to their feature of working either on a sequence of single solutions, or on a set of solutions, or even by hybridizing metaheuristic approaches with others kind of methods.

Author : Pieter Vansteenwegen
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030297462
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Orienteering Problems written by Pieter Vansteenwegen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-08-30 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This tutorial introduces readers to several variants of routing problems with profits. In these routing problems each node has a certain profit, and not all nodes need to be visited. Since the orienteering problem (OP) is by far the most frequently studied problem in this category of routing problems, the book mainly focuses on the OP. In turn, other problems are presented as variants of the OP, focusing on the similarities and differences. The goal of the OP is to determine a subset of nodes to visit and in which order, so that the total collected profit is maximized and a given time budget is not exceeded.The book provides a comprehensive review of variants of the OP, such as the team OP, the team OP with time windows, the profitable tour problem, and the prize-collecting travelling salesperson problem. In addition, it presents mathematical models and techniques for solving these OP variants and discusses their complexity. Several simple examples and benchmark instances, together with their best-known results, are also included. Finally, the book reviews the latest applications of these problems in the fields of logistics, tourism and others.

Author : Alexander Shapiro
Publisher : SIAM
ISBN 13 : 1611973430
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lectures on Stochastic Programming written by Alexander Shapiro and published by SIAM. This book was released on 2014-07-09 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Optimization problems involving stochastic models occur in almost all areas of science and engineering, such as telecommunications, medicine, and finance. Their existence compels a need for rigorous ways of formulating, analyzing, and solving such problems. This book focuses on optimization problems involving uncertain parameters and covers the theoretical foundations and recent advances in areas where stochastic models are available. In Lectures on Stochastic Programming: Modeling and Theory, Second Edition, the authors introduce new material to reflect recent developments in stochastic programming, including: an analytical description of the tangent and normal cones of chance constrained sets; analysis of optimality conditions applied to nonconvex problems; a discussion of the stochastic dual dynamic programming method; an extended discussion of law invariant coherent risk measures and their Kusuoka representations; and in-depth analysis of dynamic risk measures and concepts of time consistency, including several new results.

Author : Nacima Labadie
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1848218117
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metaheuristics for Vehicle Routing Problems written by Nacima Labadie and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is dedicated to metaheuristics as applied to vehicle routing problems. Several implementations are given as illustrative examples, along with applications to several typical vehicle routing problems. As a first step, a general presentation intends to make the reader more familiar with the related field of logistics and combinatorial optimization. This preamble is completed with a description of significant heuristic methods classically used to provide feasible solutions quickly, and local improvement moves widely used to search for enhanced solutions. The overview of these fundamentals allows appreciating the core of the work devoted to an analysis of metaheuristic methods for vehicle routing problems. Those methods are exposed according to their feature of working either on a sequence of single solutions, or on a set of solutions, or even by hybridizing metaheuristic approaches with others kind of methods.