This is a generic case of Route Optimization in the world of Operations Research and Optimization.Īnother very famous problem in the field of Computer Science is TSP or Travelling Salesman Problem, wherein we want to find the shortest route or least costly route to travel across all cities, given the pairwise distances between them. The real function (objective function) can be the cost of delivering goods from a warehouse to its customers which we would like to minimize by choosing the optimal route and optimal set of vehicles (decision variables) to deliver the goods given a limited number of drivers and time (constraints).
In simple words, an optimization problem consists of maximizing or minimizing a real function by systematically choosing input values from within an allowed set and computing the value of the function. Optimization is the process of finding maximum or minimum value of a given objective by controlling a set of decisions in a constrained environment.
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