We provide two different neighborhood construction techniques for creating exponentially large neighborhoods that are searchable in polynomial time using dynamic programming. We illustrate both of these approaches on very large scale neighborhood search techniques for the traveling salesman...

We speak of Self-Imposed Time Windows (SITW) when a logistics service provider quotes a delivery time window to his customer. Once this time window is communicated, the company strives to respect it as well as possible. We incorporate these SITW within the framework of the Vehicle Routing...

Despite the large number of papers on network topology modeling and inference, there still exists ambiguity about the real nature of the Internet and router-level topology. Today, topology generators are tightly bound to the observed data used to validate them. Given that the actual properties...

Considering the influence of economies of scale and ship capacity on empty container repositioning, using foldable containers and container leasing may be effective ways to save the operating costs of liner shipping companies. Considering the minimization of the transportation costs of empty and...