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In the new “gig” economy, a user plays the role of a consumer as well as a service provider. As a service provider, drivers travelling from a source to a destination may opportunistically pickup and drop-off packages along the way if that does not ...

The online pickup and delivery problem is motivated by the takeaway order delivery on crowdsourcing delivery platform, which is a newly emerged online to offline business model based on sharing economy. Considering the features of crowdsourcing ...

We propose a multi-criteria Composite Index Method (CIM) to compare the performance of alternative approaches to solving an optimization problem. The CIM is convenient in those situations when neither approach dominates the other when tested on ...$\mathcal{}\mathcal{}$

This paper proposes a control method for the multi-agent pickup and delivery problem (MAPD problem) by extending the priority inheritance with backtracking (PIBT) method to make it applicable to more general environments. PIBT is an effective ...

This paper proposes an idea of development of an android App, PickUp to improve the airport arrival for new international students of Malaysia private higher learning institute. It intends to reduce the waiting time for international students at the ...

With the “last mile” of the delivery process being the most expensive phase, autonomous package delivery systems are gaining traction as they aim for faster and cheaper delivery of goods to city, urban and rural destinations. This interest is ...

The magnetic field and the force distribution of a new 3-axis optical pickup actuator are simulated based on ANSYS.