Drones attract increasing attention in the last decades as a means for last mile delivery; they are mainly considered as supplement delivery tools that work jointly with trucks. In this paper, we develop a Covering Salesman Problem with Nodes and Segments Using Drones (CSPNS-D) and formulate...

Heuristics are fast and frugal rules of thumb, used to simplify complex decisions. First, the paper iden¬tifies two schools of thought in heuristics scholarship, one of positive and one of negative heuristics. Second, the paper explains why heuristics work, based on Occam's razor. Third, it...

In this essay, I attempt to bring out the curious case of ‘cognitive biases' and how this terminology ultimately leads to ‘paternalism’— efforts to control individuals, citing their irrationality and mistakes in decision-making. I take inspiration from Gigerenzer's novel approach of...

This paper presents an innovative in-depth investigation of the origin of the multi attribute vehicle routing problems (MAVRPs) and the current state in literature. The investigation includes description of the attributes, solving methods and current results. Four attributes are prioritized:...

Crowdshipping services require heterogeneous resource modelling as the supply of service is occasional. Classical routing problem such as the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) assumes vehicles' similarity; therefore, this research study is questioning this similarity by considering a unique vehicle...

Crowdshipping services require heterogeneous resource modelling as the supply of service is occasional. Classical routing problem such as the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) assumes vehicles' similarity; therefore, this research study is questioning this similarity by considering a unique vehicle...

For many industries, logistic activities encompass an important part of the total costs and sometimes, the success of the company strongly depends on the performance of these activities. Counting on a good transportation plan is a key issue to obtain desirable achievements. In general, these...

Web site usability is a critical metric for assessing the quality of a firm’s web presence. A measure of usability must not only provide a global rating for a specific web site, ideally it should also illuminate specific strengths and weaknesses associated with site design. In this paper we...

We investigate an online edge-weighted bipartite matching problem with general capacity constraints. In this problem, the resources are offline and non-replenishable with different capacities. Demands arrive online and each requests a certain amount of resources. The goal is to maximize the...