Full Description Style (Comprehensive & Detailed) This is the "more detail the better" approach. It shows you've thought deeply about the project and helps freelancers provide accurate bids. Example Project 1: Algorithm Development & Implementation Project Title: Algorithm Optimization for a Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) Description: I am looking for a skilled professional in applied mathematics and computer science to develop and implement a heuristic algorithm for a constrained Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP). Problem Scope: We have a single depot, a fleet of k vehicles with identical capacity, and n customers with known demand and time windows. The objective is to minimize the total distance traveled while respecting vehicle capacity and customer time windows. Key Requirements: Algorithm Design: Propose and implement a metaheuristic (e.g., Tabu Search, Simulated Annealing, or a Genetic Algorithm) to find near-optimal solutions. Justify your choice of algorithm. Implementation: Code must be in Python or C++. It should be clean, efficient, and well-documented. Benchmarking: Test the algorithm against standard VRP benchmark instances (e.g., from Solomon's benchmark) and report the solution quality and computation time. Visualization: Create a simple visualization to plot the resulting routes. Deliverables: The complete, commented source code. A technical report detailing the algorithm design, parameter tuning, and performance analysis on benchmark problems. A presentation-ready visualization of the solution for a sample instance. Required Skills: Algorithm Design, Operations Research, Python/C++, Metaheuristics, Optimization, Matplotlib/Plotly