April 2022
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
5h 31m
English
Content preview from Optimization and Machine Learning
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
1Vehicle Routing Problems with Loading Constraints: An Overview of Variants and Solution Methods
Ines SBAI1 and Saoussen KRICHEN1
1Université de Tunis, Institut Supérieur de Gestion de Tunis, LARODEC Laboratory, Tunisia
This chapter combines two of the most studied combinatorial optimization problems, namely, the capacitated vehicle routing problem (CVRP) and the two/three-dimensional bin packing problem (2/3D-BPP). It focuses heavily on real-life transportation problems such as the transportation of furniture or industrial machinery. An extensive overview of the CVRP with two/three-dimensional loading constraints is presented by surveying over 76 existing contributions. We provide an updated review of the variants of the L-CVRP studied in the literature and analyze some of the most popular optimization methods presented in the existing literature. Alongside this, we discuss their variants and constraints, their applications for solving real-world problems, as well as their impact on the current literature.
1.1. Introduction
Although the vehicle routing problem (VRP) is the most studied combinatorial optimization problem, the challenge still remains to achieve the most optimal and effective results (Sbai et al. 2020a). The VRP aims to minimize total traveling cost in cases where a fleet of identical vehicles is used to visit a set of customers. The VRP is used in many real-world applications, for example: pharmaceutical distribution, food distribution, the urban bus problem ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.