Artificial Intelligence and other Intelligent Systems heavily contribute to evolution and growth in the field of Operations Management. Intelligent Systems in Operations: Models, Methods, and Applications introduces current and original research in intelligent systems and methodologies. This book intends to provide knowledge and insights on present and future AI applications in OM from current research-oriented thinking on AI-based systems in the benefit of OM tools and decisions in terms of theoretical and empirical models, methods and their comparisons, and actual and proposed applications....

In the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP), when the vehicles are of several types and capacities, and some of the customer sites are compatible with only some vehicle types, the VRP is said to have site-vehicle dependency constraints. The importance of the problem solution in the logistics industry has led to extensive research in academics and industry, resulting in the development of several heuristic solution techniques, none of which have addressed site-vehicle dependencies, which is the topic of this work. The VEHTYPE heuristic is a sequential procedure that works on one vehicle type at a...