Nowadays, organizations have to compete with different competitors in regional, national and international levels, so they have to improve their competition capabilities to survive against competitors. Undertaking activities on a global scale requires a proper distribution system which could take advantages of different transportation modes. Accordingly, the present paper addresses a location-r...

In this talk, we consider a location-routing problem in designing the optical Internet with WDM systems. This problem arises from the design of broadband local access networks that deliver high-speed access service to residential subscribers. In this problem, we consider fiber routing and gateway location. For routing problem, we determine the optimal dimensioning of link capacity, and seek to ...

We investigate a variant of the many-to-many hub location-routing problem which consists in partitioning the set of nodes of a graph into routes containing exactly one hub each, and determining an extra route interconnecting all hubs. A variable neighborhood descent with neighborhood structures based on remove/add, swap and exchange moves nested with routing and location operations is used as a...

ABSTRACT. POPMUSIC — Partial optimization metaheuristic under special intensification conditions — is a template for tackling large problem instances. This template has been shown to be very efficient for various combinatorial problems like p-median, sum of squares clustering, vehicle routing and map labeling. In terms of algorithmic complexity, one of the most complex part of POPMUSIC template...

The efficient design/redesign of the logistics network is essential for companies to maintain their competitive advantage. This paper presents a novel non-linear mixedinteger programming model for the multi-product capacitated location routing inventory problem (MPCLRIP), where a two-layer distribution system consisting of depots and customers was studied. The supply decisions such as location ...

the inventory routing problem (irp) arises in the context of vendor-managed systems. this problem addresses jointly solving an inventory management problem and a vehicle routing problem. in this paper, we consider a multi-depot multi-vehicle inventory routing problem in which suppliers produce one type of product to be delivered to customers during a finite time horizon. we propose a two-phase ...

It is observed that the separated design of location for depots and routing for servicing customers often reach a suboptimal solution. So, solving location and routing problem simultaneously could achieve better results. In this paper, waste collection problem is considered with regard to economic and societal objective functions. A non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm (NSGA-II) is used to l...