Sustainable supply chain management has been an increasingly important topic of research in recent years. At the strategic level, there are computational models which study supply and distribution networks with environmental considerations. At the operational level, there are, for example, routing and scheduling models which are constrained by carbon emissions. Our paper explores work in tactic...

We propose an approach which formulates the traffic matrix estimation problem as a non-negativity constrained optimization problem, and then a projection method is used to solve it. We conduct experiments both on synthetic and real measurement data obtained from the Abilene network. The results indicate that the estimated traffic matrices are more accurately estimated when our approach is used ...

We study a new variant of the well-studied vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRPTW), called fragility-constrained VRPTW, which assumes that (1) capacity is organized in multiple identical stacks; (2) all items picked up at customer are either “fragile” or not; (3) no nonfragile can be put on top fragile item (the fragility constraint); and (4) en route load rearrangement possible. firs...

Arc routing problems consist basically of finding one or several routes traversing a given set arcs and/or edges that must be serviced. The Close-Enough Routing Problem, Generalized Directed Rural Postman does not assume customers are located at specific arcs, but can serviced by any arc subset. Real-life applications include for meter reading, in which vehicle equipped with receiver travels st...

Pervasive computing provides an off-desktop computing paradigm, which allows users to access information and services anywhere and anytime. A pervasive environment is featured by user mobility. In other words, users may be moving around different locations. The user mobility makes it challenging to provide a distraction-free service since a user’s interaction context may change according to his...

This paper presents an experimental investigation of the Sounds of Silence (SoS) harmony search metaheuristic for the multi-mode resource-constrained project scheduling problem (MRCPSP) using a pre-optimized starting repertoire. The presented algorithm is based on the time oriented version of the SoS harmony search metaheuristic developed by Csébfalvi et al. [1] for the single-mode resource-con...

Guiding vehicles to their destination under dynamic traffic conditions is an important topic in the field of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Nowadays, many complex systems can be controlled by using multi agent systems. Adaptation with the current condition is an important feature of the agents. In this research, formulation of dynamic guidance for vehicles has been investigated based...