Lin, Shih-Wei; Yu, Vincent F. - In: European Journal of Operational Research 217 (2012) 1, pp. 94-107
This paper presents a simulated annealing based heuristic approach for the team orienteering problem with time windows (TOPTW). Given a set of known locations, each with a score, a service time, and a time window, the TOPTW finds a set of vehicle tours that maximizes the total collected scores....