This paper considers a generalized version of the trip packing problem that we encountered as a sub-problem of the petrol stations replenishment problem. In this version we have to assign a number of trips to a fleet composed of a limited number of non-identical tank-trucks. Each trip has a...

In a recent paper, [Murthy, N.N., Benton, W.C., Rubin, P.A., 2003. Offsetting inventory cycles of items sharing storage. European Journal of Operational Research 150, 304-319] discussed the problem of offsetting inventory replenishment cycles of several items in order to minimize the maximum...

The purpose of this article is to propose a tabu search heuristic for the split delivery Vehicle Routing Problem with Production and Demand Calendars (VRPPDC). This new problem consists of determining which customers will be served by a common carrier, as well as the delivery routes for those...

Purpose: Nowadays, the field of data analytics is witnessing an unprecedented interest from a variety of stakeholders. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the subfield of predictive analytics by proposing a new non-parametric classifier. Design/methodology/approach: The proposed new...