The rise of AI, graphic processing, combinatorial optimization and other data-intensive applications has resulted in data-processing bottlenecks, as ever greater amounts of data must be shuttled back ...

This paper considers the classical vehicle routing problem (VRP) where the vehicle capacity is not fixed. Indeed, at the moment of acquiring (or renting) the vehicle that will serve all customers, ...

An optimization problem is one where you have to make the best decision (choose the best investments, minimize your company’s costs, find the class schedule with the fewest morning classes, or so on).