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....

This paper is an extension of two papers. The first of these, published in European Journal of Operational Research, 2007, 112-120 is by Deng et al. (2007) and concerns inventory models for deteriorating items with ramp type demand. The second, published in Computer & Industrial Engineering,...