Purpose Few states or local school districts mandate a minimum time for lunch. With increasing pressure on schools to maximize instructional time, many US students have witnessed continued reductions in the time allotted to lunch periods and, thus, less time to choose from an increasing number...

South-South Cooperation (SSC) has been gaining momentum as an effective mode of development assistance, complementing the more traditional North-South approach. The Accra Agenda for Action (AAA), agreed at the High Level Forum3 (HLF3) on aid effectiveness in September 2008, underlined the...

In this paper, an approach based on Ant Colony Optimisation (ACO) is described for one-sided time constraint Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP), where the delivery of products from the depot to distribution centres has to take place within the maximum permissible time. The problem is described with...