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On‐Time Meal Delivery Assisted by Drone Resupply

open access: yesNaval Research Logistics (NRL), EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ensuring timely delivery is crucial with the increasing competition in online meal delivery services. This requires the industry to adopt new technologies and the corresponding operational models, including the use of drones. Concerning the desired features of meal delivery, such as safety and reliability, we propose an operational model that ...
Wenqian Liu, Lindong Liu, Xiangtong Qi
wiley   +1 more source

Tabu search for ship routing and scheduling

open access: yes, 2006
This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University, 20/12/2006.This thesis examines exact and heuristic approaches to solve the Ship Routing and Scheduling Problem (SRSP). The method was developed to address
Al-Hamad, Khaled
core  

Self‐Service and Home Delivery Combined: Coordinating the Route of a Mobile Parcel Locker With the Delivery Tasks of Its Human Driver

open access: yesNetworks, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In response to the increasing volume of parcels, last‐mile delivery innovations are exploring the integration of multiple delivery modes. The most prominent examples are delivery vans that, next to being the base for the delivery tasks of their human drivers, also function as mobile launching platforms for drones or autonomous delivery robots.
Nils Boysen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A review of the Tabu Search Literature on Traveling Salesman Problems [PDF]

open access: yes
The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is one of the most widely studied problems inrncombinatorial optimization. It has long been known to be NP-hard and hence research onrndeveloping algorithms for the TSP has focused on approximate methods in addition ...
Sumanta Basu, Ghosh, Diptesh
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Localizing Efforts to Prevent Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in Humanitarian Aid: Evolving Experiences of Power and Agency in Lebanon

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Efforts to address gender‐based violence in humanitarian settings increasingly call for recognition of and funding to local women‐led organizations and women's rights organizations for long‐term response. The Empowered Aid initiative seeks to address sexual exploitation and abuse by working with local organizations as well as the refugee women
Jihan Kaisi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Otimização de leiaute usando busca tabu Facility layout optimization using tabu search

open access: yesGestão & Produção, 1997
A busca por leiautes de facilidades de alta qualidade pode ser vista como um problema de otimização combinatória que surge numa grande variedade de contextos de planejamento espacial.
João Carlos Furtado   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tabu search and finite convergence

open access: yesDiscrete Applied Mathematics, 2002
zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Fred W. Glover, Saïd Hanafi
openaire   +2 more sources

Implementing Tabu Search to Exploit Sparsity in ATSP Instances [PDF]

open access: yes
Real life traveling salesman problem (TSP) instances are often large,sparse, and asymmetric. Conventional tabu search implementations for the TSP that have been reported in the literature, almost always deals with small, dense and symmetric instances. In
Sumanta Basu   +2 more
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Hunting motivations, behaviour and forest access: Characterising wildlife hunting practices in a multi‐ethnic, forested landscape of Brunei Darussalam, Southeast Asia

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Unsustainable hunting practices can alter population dynamics, driving biodiversity declines, which leads to ‘empty forests’. Understanding hunting behaviour, including motivations for hunting and relationships with market drivers, and access to hunting grounds are important to develop affirmative policies to stem biodiversity loss.
Natasha L. M. Mannion   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

FARKLI GELİŞ ZAMANLI ÖĞRENME ETKİLİ PARALEL MAKİNELİ ÇİZELGELEME PROBLEMİ

open access: yesHavacılık ve Uzay Teknolojileri Dergisi, 2008
In this study m-identical parallel machine scheduling problem with release date is considered. The objective function of the problem is minimization of the makespan.
Tamer Eren
doaj  

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