The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...
NEW MELLE, Mo. – After a recent stretch of deadly crashes in the St. Louis region, a new form of training for the New Melle Fire Protection District (NMFPD) debuts next week. They’re recreating some ...
1 Department of Quantitative Methods, College of Business, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia 2 Department of Quantitative Methods, University of Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia Humanitarian aid ...
The mathematical model is easy to understand, effective in application, relatively simple to solve, and outperforms the existing equitable location approaches. This model can also be easily extended ...
Abstract: Electric vehicle distribution has short mileage, strong time dependence, and is more vulnerable to road congestion in urban road networks. In order to solve the problem of high distribution ...
ABSTRACT: Currently, cash distribution experts know the importance of supporting decisions in an optimization model. Different enterprises and institutions design their distribution routes in an ...
Abstract: This paper proposes an improved simulated annealing (ISA) algorithm embedded in column generation to solve the vehicle routing problem with multiple time windows (VRPMTW). Firstly, two ...