A mixed integer linear program (MILP) formulation of the capacitated vehicle routing problem with time windows (CVRPTW). I use soft time windows with a weighted penalty in the objective function to ...

A MILP formulation of the capacitated vehicle routing problem with time windows (CVRPTW). I use soft time windows with a weighted penalty in the objective function to discourage lateness while ...

The problem of selecting processes and capacity expansion policies for a chemical complex consisting of continuous chemical processses can be formulated as a multiperiod, mixed integer linear ...

Abstract: In the real manufacturing environment, the machining stage of the jobs and the assembly stage of the products are often completed in different workshops. In addition, automatic guided ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA — While Santa Claus may have a magical sleigh and nine plucky reindeer to help him deliver presents, for companies like FedEx, the optimization problem of efficiently routing holiday ...

They identified a key intermediate step in MILP solvers that has so many potential solutions it takes an enormous amount of time to unravel, which slows the entire process. The researchers employed a ...