(MDPI, 2021) Juan, Ángel A.; Rabe, Markus; Goldsman, David; Faulín Fajardo, Javier; Estadística, Informática y Matemáticas; Estatistika, Informatika eta Matematika; Institute of Smart Cities - ISC
This is a reprint of articles from the Special Issue published online in the open access journal
Algorithms (ISSN 1999-4893) (available at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/special
issues/Simulation Optimization).
This book provides a selected collection of recent works in the growing area of
simulation-optimization methods applied to transportation, logistics, and supply chain networks.
Many of the authors that contribute to the book are internationally recognized experts in the field,
as well as frequent speakers at the prestigious Winter Simulation Conference, where some of the
Guest Editors organize an annual track on logistics, transportation and supply chains. Inside this
track, it is usual to find several sessions on the concept of simheuristics, a special type of simulation
optimization that combines metaheuristics with simulation to deal with complex and large-scale
optimization problems under uncertainty conditions.
The chapters in the book cover a wide area of logistics and transportation applications, from
bike-sharing systems to container terminals, parcel locker systems, or e-commerce applications.