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Elements of Scheduling and Routing Theory

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In this chapter, we review a number of problems which occur in the areas of scheduling and routing. The first part of this chapter, Sect. 2.1, is devoted to scheduling problems. In this section, we consider various types of machine and project scheduling problems. Further, we provide references to the related literature. Section 2.2 deals with the routing part of the review. An introduction and overview on different vehicle routing problems is given, along with references to the routing literature. Section 2.3 addresses integrated problems, which include simultaneous scheduling and vehicle routing. Finally, Sect. 2.4 deals with reformulations of the various models for scheduling and vehicle routing. In view of the considerable number of problem variants and requirements, this review is not intended to be exhaustive. Instead, the focus will be on models and additional constraints that are relevant to the purpose of this work.

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Weiss, I. (2019). Elements of Scheduling and Routing Theory. In: The Resource Transfer Problem. Contributions to Management Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02538-0_2

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