increasing of the distribution efficiency is one of the most objectives of an integrated logistic system developed as a new management philosophy in the past few decades. the problem is examind in two parts: facilities location problem (flp) for long policies and vehicle routing problem (vrp) to meet the customer demand. these two components can be solved separately; however, this solution may ...

centralizing and using proper transportation facilities cut down costs and traffic. hub facilities concentrate on flows to cause economic advantage of scale and multimodal transportation helps use the advantage of another transporter. a distinctive feature of this paper is proposing a new mathematical formulation for a three-stage p-hub location routing problem with simultaneous pick-ups and de...

In this paper, we study an integrated logistic system where the optimal location of depots and vehicles routing are considered simultaneously. This paper presents a new mathematical model for a multi-objective capacitated location-routing problem with a new set of objectives consisting of the summation of economic costs, summation of social risks and demand satisfaction score. A new multi-objec...

In this paper, we study the location routing problem with replenishment facilities (LRPRF), an extension of the location routing problem (LRP) where the vehicles can replenish at some replenishment facilities. Vehicles leave the depot with load on-board, serve customers until out of load, and then either return to a replenishment facility to reload or return to the depot, completing their route...

heretofore several position-based routing protocols have been developed for mobile ad hoc networks. many of these protocols assume that a location service is available which provides location information on the nodes in the network.our solutions decrease location update without loss of query success rate or throughput and even increase those.simulation results show that our methods are effectiv...

Existing geographic routing algorithms face serious challenges due to location errors, nonplanarity issues and overhead of location service. To solve these issues, we propose Topological Cluster Based Geographic Routing that combines topology-based routing and geographic routing. It is a localized routing scheme where the geographic routing is performed on an overlay network of topological clus...

The number of optimization techniques in the combinatorial domain is large and diversified. Nevertheless, real-world based benchmarks for testing algorithms are few. This work creates an extensible real-world mail delivery benchmark to the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) in a planar graph embedded in the 2D Euclidean space. Such problem is multi-objective on a roadmap with up to 25 vehicles and 3...

We propose an integrated location management and location-aided routing system which organizes the Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET) into a two-level hierarchy with the help of Voronoi diagrams. The location information of mobile nodes in a Voronoi zone is summarized using Bloom Filters and distributed among the location servers in the zones. The integrated system has the property that the destinat...

Due to the utilization of location information, geographic ad hoc routing presents superiority in scalability compared with traditional topology-based routing in mobile ad hoc networks. However, the consequent solicitation for location presence incurs severe concerns of location privacy, which has not been properly studied. In this paper, we attempt to preserve location privacy based on the ide...