Existing literature on routing of school buses has focused mainly on building intricate models that attempt to capture as many real-life constraints and objectives as possible. In contrast, the focus of this paper is on understanding the problem in its most basic form. To this end, we define the...

The objective of this article is to derive the density function and cumulative distribution function for random variables which may be written as the sum of independent (either identical or non-identical) zerotruncated Poisson random variables. The obtained expressions may be particularly useful...

Group Decision Support Systems usually use a multiple criteria method as an engine to obtain the group’s ranking of the alternatives. Intermediate results of this multiple criteria method are aggregated over the different group members to come to a final result. Another approach consists of...

This paper proposes a variant of the Vehicle Routing Problem in which a particular kind of risk constraint has been introduced to model the problem of routing vehicles in the cash-in-transit industry and a hard time window constraint, with no waiting times, delimits the customer's visit within a...

Existing literature on routing of school buses has focused mainly on building intricate models that attempt to capture as many real-life constraints and objectives as possible. In contrast, the focus of this paper is on understanding the joint problem of bus route generation and bus stop...

The basic deterministic stationary inventory problem, in which backorders are allowed, is analyzed. Instead of considering the backorder cost to be a cost per unit and per time, we also suppose the presence of a fixed backorder cost per unit. The latter generates a supplementary dependence of...

In this paper, we present a variant of the vehicle routing problem (VRP) to increase security in the cash-in-transit sector. A speci?c index is used to quantify the exposure of a vehicle to the risk of being robbed along its route. In addition, the problem is subjected to a traditional capacity...