<> "The repository administrator has not yet configured an RDF license."^^ . <> . . . "The min-cost parallel drone scheduling vehicle routing problem"^^ . "Adopting unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), also known as drones, into the last-mile-delivery\r\nsector and having them work alongside trucks with the aim of improving service quality and\r\nreducing the transportation cost gives rise to a new class of Vehicle Routing Problems (VRPs).\r\nIn this paper, we introduce a new optimization problem called the min-cost Parallel Drone\r\nScheduling Vehicle Routing Problem (PDSVRP). This problem is a variant of the well-known\r\nParallel Drone Scheduling Traveling Salesman Problem (PDSTSP) recently introduced in the\r\nliterature in which we allow multiple trucks and consider the objective of minimizing the total\r\ntransportation costs. We formulate the problem as a Mixed Integer Linear Program and then\r\ndevelop a Ruin and Recreate (R&R) algorithm. Exploiting PDSVRP solution characteristics\r\nin an effective manner, our heuristic manages to introduce \\sufficient\" rooms to a solution via\r\nnew removal operators during the ruin phase. It is expected to enhance the possibilities for\r\nimproving solutions later in the recreate phase. Multiple experiments on a new set of randomly\r\ngenerated instances confirm the performance of our approach. To explore the benefits of drone\r\ndelivery as well as the insight into the impact of related factors on the contribution of drones’ use\r\nto operational cost, a sensitivity analysis is conducted. We also adapt the proposed algorithm\r\nto solve the PDSTSP and validate it via benchmarks available in the literature. It is shown that\r\nour algorithm outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms in terms of solution quality. Out of 90\r\nconsidered instances, it finds 26 new best known solutions."^^ . "2021" . . . "European Journal of Operational Research"^^ . . . "03772217" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Minh Hoàng"^^ . "Hà"^^ . "Minh Hoàng Hà"^^ . . "Minh Trien"^^ . "Pham"^^ . "Minh Trien Pham"^^ . . "Giang Thi-Huong"^^ . "Dang"^^ . "Giang Thi-Huong Dang"^^ . . "Minh Anh"^^ . "Nguyen"^^ . "Minh Anh Nguyen"^^ . . . . . . "The min-cost parallel drone scheduling vehicle routing problem (PDF)"^^ . . . "PDSVRP-R2.pdf"^^ . . . "The min-cost parallel drone scheduling vehicle routing problem (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "lightbox.jpg"^^ . . . "The min-cost parallel drone scheduling vehicle routing problem (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "medium.jpg"^^ . . . "The min-cost parallel drone scheduling vehicle routing problem (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "small.jpg"^^ . . . "The min-cost parallel drone scheduling vehicle routing problem (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "indexcodes.txt"^^ . . "HTML Summary of #4567 \n\nThe min-cost parallel drone scheduling vehicle routing problem\n\n" . "text/html" . . . "Information Technology (IT)"@en . . . "Agriculture Technology" . . . "ISI-indexed journals"@en . .