Finite First Hitting Time versus Stochastic convergence in Particle Swarm Optimisation -- Using Performance Profiles for the Analysis and Design of Benchmark Experiments -- Real-World Parameter Tuning using Factorial Design with Parameter Decomposition -- Evolving Pacing Strategies for Team...

Situation des Ladungsverkehrs -- Neuere Ansätze der Transportplanung -- Ausgewählte Grundlagen der Touren- und Standortplanung -- Ein multikriterielles Location Routing Problem mit Abholungen, Auslieferungen, Umladungen und mehrfachem Fahrzeugeinsatz -- Problemdekomposition mit heuristischen...

Christian A. Ullrich investigates the optimization potential of integrated supply chain scheduling approaches. Considering a company-internal supply chain, the author´s first research question is whether the results of integrating machine scheduling and vehicle routing are significantly better...

The scope of this volume centers on advancements in the state of art and the state of the practice in computer-aided systems in public transport. Yet, this volume illustrates a greater breadth of subjects in this area. The common theme remains the use of computer-aided methods and operations...

In April 2007 new legal rules concerning the driving and working hours of truck drivers have become valid in all member countries of the European Union. In the study of Christoph Manuel Meyer the dispatchers’ problem of combined vehicle routing and break scheduling is modelled and solved using...

The resource transfer problem (RTP) is a modeling and solution framework for integrated complex scheduling and rich vehicle routing problems. It allows the modeling of a wide variety of scheduling problems, vehicle routing problems, their combination with integrated problems, as well as various...