DEPARTMENT: Hello World
Harnessing the Power of Optimization: Vehicle Routing Problems in Logistics and Distribution
By Pavithra Sripathanallur Murali, October 2024
By Pavithra Sripathanallur Murali, October 2024
Can people help computers solve challenging optimization problems?
By Michael Mitzenmacher, December 2010
By Justin Solomon, June 2009
Courier problems comprise a set of recently proposed combinatorial optimization problems, which are inspired by some novel requirements in railway wagon scheduling. In these problems, scheduling strategies of some mobile couriers are considered. These mobile couriers initially reside at some fixed location. They are assigned some duties of commodity transfer between different pairs of locations. The scenario may be static or dynamic. The motivation is to optimize the movement of the couriers over the constraint of the traversed path or the associated cost. We discuss here some varieties of the courier problems formalized on graphs and address the potential methods of their solution.
By Malay Bhattacharyya, June 2009
By Justin Solomon, March 2008