The general aim of this doctoral thesis was to thoroughly investigate diverse hybrid optimization strategies for certain classes ofNP-hard combinatorial optimization problems. For this basic concepts should be refined and further developed. The ultimate goals were twofold: to come up with highly effective, new state-of-the-art methods for solving the selected benchmark problems, and to gain fur...

Abstract To achieve logistic efficiency and customer convenience in last-mile delivery processes, a system with alternative points the form of locker box stations can be used. In such system, customers served either at their home address within certain time window, or station where parcels picked up any time. Customers get compensation payment when being box. They have request more than one par...

Vehicle routing problems attempt to define optimal delivery methods of goods to places. I examined the capacitated vehicle routing problem that determines the least cost route to deliver objects to customers using a single vehicle of fixed capacity. Vehicle routing problems attract considerable attention because of their implications for delivery businesses. My variant of the problem differs fr...