The H-function distribution has been shown to be a powerful addition in the study of the algebra of non-negative random variables. However, most of this work has been restricted to the study of independent H-function variates. This paper introduces a bivariate probability distribution based on...

The pickup and delivery problem with time windows requires that a group of vehicles satisfy a collection of customer requests. Each customer request requires the use of a single vehicle both to load a specified amount of goods at one location and to deliver them to another location. All requests...