On Aug. 23, a class action lawsuit was filed alleging that some leading PVC pipe manufacturers exploited supply chain disruptions to fix prices and overcharge their customers for PVC municipal water ...

The Department of Justice is now investigating price-fixing in the PVC pipe market following a class action lawsuit filed in August which alleges manufacturers conspired to fix, raise, maintain and ...

Abstract: Recent studies in using deep learning (DL) to solve routing problems focus on construction heuristics, whose solutions are still far from optimality. Improvement heuristics have great ...