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Barrett W. Thomas

Barrett W. Thomas

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Computer Science

D-Index
35
Citations
4195
World Ranking
11820
National Ranking
4826

Overview

Barrett W. Thomas is affiliated with the University of Iowa in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of engineering, with a focus on several subfields such as automotive engineering, building and construction, industrial and manufacturing engineering, transportation, and management information systems.

Their research spans a variety of topics primarily related to transportation and logistics. Key topics include:

  • Transportation and Mobility Innovations
  • Urban and Freight Transport Logistics
  • Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods
  • Transportation Planning and Optimization
  • Smart Parking Systems Research
  • Supply Chain and Inventory Management
  • Pharmacogenetics and Drug Metabolism

Barrett W. Thomas has published in a number of venues, with a significant number of publications in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Transportation Science
  • Computers & Operations Research
  • European Journal of Operational Research
  • EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics

Among recent research papers, notable works include:

  • "The Restaurant Meal Delivery Problem: Dynamic Pickup and Delivery with Deadlines and Random Ready Times" (2020) published in Transportation Science
  • "On modeling stochastic dynamic vehicle routing problems" (2020) published in EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics
  • "Opportunities for reinforcement learning in stochastic dynamic vehicle routing" (2022) published in Computers & Operations Research
  • "The Value of Autonomous Vehicles for Last-Mile Deliveries in Urban Environments" (2021) published in Management Science
  • "Building Trust in Home Services-Stochastic Team-Orienteering with Consistency Constraints" (2020) published in Transportation Science

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Marlin W. Ulmer
  • Ann Melissa Campbell
  • Sara M. Reed
  • Florentin D. Hildebrandt
  • Sadjad Anzabi Zadeh

Best Publications

  • The Same-Day Delivery Problem for Online Purchases

    Stacy A. Voccia;Ann Melissa Campbell;Barrett W. Thomas

  • The stochastic p-hub center problem with service-level constraints

    Thaddeus Sim;Timothy J. Lowe;Barrett W. Thomas

  • Same-day delivery with heterogeneous fleets of drones and vehicles

    Marlin W. Ulmer;Barrett W. Thomas

  • The Restaurant Meal Delivery Problem: Dynamic Pickup and Delivery with Deadlines and Random Ready Times

    Marlin W. Ulmer;Barrett W. Thomas;Ann Melissa Campbell;Nicholas Woyak

  • The orienteering problem with stochastic travel and service times

    Ann Melissa Campbell;Michel Gendreau;Barrett W. Thomas

  • A Compressed-Annealing Heuristic for the Traveling Salesman Problem with Time Windows

    Jeffrey W. Ohlmann;Barrett W. Thomas

  • Vehicle routing to minimize time-dependent emissions in urban areas

    Jan Fabian Ehmke;Ann Melissa Campbell;Barrett W. Thomas

  • Waiting Strategies for Anticipating Service Requests from Known Customer Locations

    Barrett W. Thomas

  • Probabilistic Traveling Salesman Problem with Deadlines

    Ann M. Campbell;Barrett W. Thomas

  • Anticipatory Route Selection

    Barrett W. Thomas;Chelsea C. White

  • Rollout Policies for Dynamic Solutions to the Multivehicle Routing Problem with Stochastic Demand and Duration Limits

    Justin C. Goodson;Jeffrey W. Ohlmann;Barrett W. Thomas

  • On modeling stochastic dynamic vehicle routing problems

    Marlin W. Ulmer;Justin C. Goodson;Dirk C. Mattfeld;Barrett W. Thomas

  • Preemptive depot returns for dynamic same-day delivery

    Marlin W. Ulmer;Barrett W. Thomas;Dirk C. Mattfeld

  • Opportunities for reinforcement learning in stochastic dynamic vehicle routing

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  • Edge intersection graphs of single bend paths on a grid

    Martin Charles Golumbic;Marina Lipshteyn;Michal Stern

  • Cyclic-order neighborhoods with application to the vehicle routing problem with stochastic demand

    Justin C. Goodson;Jeffrey W. Ohlmann;Barrett W. Thomas

  • A rollout algorithm framework for heuristic solutions to finite-horizon stochastic dynamic programs

    Justin C. Goodson;Barrett W. Thomas;Jeffrey W. Ohlmann

  • Deep Q-learning for same-day delivery with vehicles and drones

    Xinwei Chen;Marlin W. Ulmer;Barrett W. Thomas

  • The dynamic shortest path problem with anticipation

    Barrett W. Thomas;Chelsea C. White

  • A Comparison of Anticipatory Algorithms for the Dynamic and Stochastic Traveling Salesman Problem

    Gianpaolo Ghiani;Emanuele Manni;Barrett W. Thomas

  • The Value of Autonomous Vehicles for Last-Mile Deliveries in Urban Environments

    Sara Reed;Ann Melissa Campbell;Barrett W. Thomas

  • Data-driven approaches for emissions-minimized paths in urban areas

    Jan Fabian Ehmke;Ann Melissa Campbell;Barrett W. Thomas

Frequent Co-Authors

Ann Melissa Campbell
Ann Melissa Campbell University of Iowa
Chelsea C. White
Chelsea C. White Georgia Institute of Technology
Christian Blum
Christian Blum Spanish National Research Council
Dirk C. Mattfeld
Dirk C. Mattfeld Technische Universität Braunschweig
Stein W. Wallace
Stein W. Wallace Norwegian School of Economics
Arie Tamir
Arie Tamir Tel Aviv University
Michel Gendreau
Michel Gendreau Polytechnique Montréal
Timothy J. Lowe
Timothy J. Lowe University of Iowa
Manuel López-Ibáñez
Manuel López-Ibáñez University of Manchester
Gianpaolo Ghiani
Gianpaolo Ghiani University of Salento

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