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Feng Cheng, Shuchun Jia and Wei Gao
In order to tackle the issue of carbon emissions in logistics and distribution, a vehicle routing model was proposed with the aim of minimizing the overall cost, which includes the vehicle?s fixed cost, transportation costs, and carbon emission costs. An...
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Abdullahi T. Sulaiman, Habeeb Bello-Salau, Adeiza J. Onumanyi, Muhammed B. Mu?azu, Emmanuel A. Adedokun, Ahmed T. Salawudeen and Abdulfatai D. Adekale
The particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm is widely used for optimization purposes across various domains, such as in precision agriculture, vehicular ad hoc networks, path planning, and for the assessment of mathematical test functions towards ben...
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Amirreza Nickkar and Young-Jae Lee
In many states in the United States, school bus fleets are assigned to serve students sequentially at three levels?high school, middle school, and elementary school; however, in past studies, each of these stages in the problem was considered separately....
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Enrique Díaz de León-Hicks, Santiago Enrique Conant-Pablos, José Carlos Ortiz-Bayliss and Hugo Terashima-Marín
In the algorithm selection problem, where the task is to identify the most suitable solving technique for a particular situation, most methods used as performance mapping mechanisms have been relatively simple models such as logistic regression or neural...
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Daqing Wu, Jiyu Li, Jiye Cui and Dong Hu
With continuous improvements in people?s consumption levels, consumers? demands for safe and fresh agricultural products increase. The increase in the number of vehicles and serious congestion on roads has led to problems, such as the weak timeliness of ...
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Daqing Wu, Rong Yan, Hongtao Jin and Fengmao Cai
In the operational, strategic and tactical decision-making problems of the agri-food supply chain, the perishable nature of the commodities can represent a particular complexity problem. It is, therefore, appropriate to consider decision support tools th...
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Angel A. Juan, Markus Rabe, Majsa Ammouriova, Javier Panadero, David Peidro and Daniel Riera
In the field of logistics and transportation (L&T), this paper reviews the utilization of simheuristic algorithms to address NP-hard optimization problems under stochastic uncertainty. Then, the paper explores an extension of the simheuristics concep...
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Cátia Oliveira, Joana Pereira, Eva Santos, Tânia M. Lima and Pedro D. Gaspar
At this time the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccines has been proven, and it is crucial to carry out the complete vaccination of the population. Therefore, it is imperative to optimize the vaccine distribution fleets. This paper discusses the optimiza...
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Mao Nishira, Satoshi Ito, Hiroki Nishikawa, Xiangbo Kong and Hiroyuki Tomiyama
Delivery drones have been attracting attention as a means of solving recent logistics issues, and many companies are focusing on their practical applications. Many research studies on delivery drones have been active for several decades. Among them, exte...
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Ahmad Alhindi, Abrar Alsaidi and Amr Munshi
The distributor management system has long been a challenge for many organizations and companies. Overall, successful distribution involves several moving entities and methods, requiring a resilient distribution management strategy powered by data analys...
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