New Insights in Algorithms for Logistics Problems and Management

Dear Colleagues,

Logistics management is essential for the efficient delivery of goods and services, enabling organizations to meet customer needs on time and within budget. The effective use of logistics integrates planning, execution, and oversight across suppliers, facilities, and distribution channels, leveraging operations research, optimization algorithms, sensing technologies, and modeling techniques to enhance decision making. However, persistent challenges remain around coordination, transportation costs, sustainability, and regulatory compliance.

This Special Issue welcomes novel contributions on optimization algorithms and analytical models that provide new insights for advancing logistics management. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Innovative algorithms for vehicle routing, fleet optimization, and delivery scheduling;
• Novel approaches for integrating Internet of Things (IoT) with logistics analytics;
• New models and algorithms for sustainable supply chain management;
• Advances in arc routing algorithms and applications;
• Logistics optimization under uncertainty and real-time dynamics;
• AI-based algorithms for automated logistics facilities;
• Algorithmic approaches for resilient and reconfigurable logistics;
• Analytics and algorithms for omnichannel logistics operations;
• Emerging applications of optimization algorithms in logistics management.

We encourage authors to submit original research articles as well as comprehensive review articles on the state of the art and future directions. Submissions will be rigorously peer-reviewed for technical depth, innovation, and contribution to advancing logistics systems and theory.

Dr. Gloria Cerasela Crisan
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Algorithms is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• operations research
• vehicle routing problem
• arc routing problem