The purpose of this paper is to study the periodic arc-routing problem when the arcs of a network behave as customers, and sufficient material is delivered so that each achieves its desired inventory level. Therefore, routing and inventory decisions are made simultaneously. Applications include...

The dairy transportation problem (DTP) consists of determining the best routes to be performed for collecting milk from farms and delivering it to processing plants. We study the particular case of the province of Quebec, where the Fédération des producteurs de lait du Québec is responsible...

Hyper-heuristics comprise a set of approaches that are motivated (at least in part) by the goal of automating the design of heuristic methods to solve hard computational search problems. An underlying strategic research challenge is to develop more generally applicable search methodologies. The...