|
|
Boschetti, M. A., & Novellani, S. (2023). Last-mile delivery with drone and lockers. Networks, Early Access.
Abstract: In this article, we define a new routing problem that arises in the last-mile delivery of parcels, in which customers can be served either directly at home by a capacitated truck, or possibly with a drone carried on the truck, or in a self-service mode using one of the available lockers. We investigate four different formulations, and for one of them, we propose a branch-and-cut approach. We also discuss some possible variants of the original problem. In the computational experiments, we analyze and compare the performance of the four formulations for the problem and its variants, and we provide some useful managerial insights.
|
|
|
|
Ljubic, I., & Moreno, E. (2018). Outer approximation and submodular cuts for maximum capture facility location problems with random utilities. Eur. J. Oper. Res., 266(1), 46–56.
Abstract: We consider a family of competitive facility location problems in which a “newcomer” company enters the market and has to decide where to locate a set of new facilities so as to maximize its market share. The multinomial logit model is used to estimate the captured customer demand. We propose a first branch-and-cut approach for this family of difficult mixed-integer non-linear problems. Our approach combines two types of cutting planes that exploit particular properties of the objective function: the first one are the outer-approximation cuts and the second one are the submodular cuts. The approach is computationally evaluated on three datasets from the recent literature. The obtained results show that our new branch-and-cut drastically outperforms state-of-the-art exact approaches, both in terms of the computing times, and in terms of the number of instances solved to optimality. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
|
|
|
|
Pereira, J., & Vasquez, O. C. (2017). The single machine weighted mean squared deviation problem. Eur. J. Oper. Res., 261(2), 515–529.
Abstract: This paper studies a single machine problem related to the just-In-Time (JIT) production objective in which the goal is to minimize the sum of weighted mean squared deviation of the completion times with respect to a common due date. In order to solve the problem, several structural and dominance properties of the optimal solution are investigated. These properties are then integrated within a branch and-cut approach to solve a time-indexed formulation of the problem. The results of a computational experiment with the proposed algorithm show that the method is able to optimally solve instances with up to 300 jobs within reduced running times, improving other integer programming approaches. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
|
|
|
|
Ritt, M., & Pereira, J. (2020). Heuristic and exact algorithms for minimum-weight non-spanning arborescences. Eur. J. Oper. Res., 287(1), 61–75.
Abstract: We address the problem of finding an arborescence of minimum total edge weight rooted at a given vertex in a directed, edge-weighted graph. If the arborescence must span all vertices the problem is solvable in polynomial time, but the non-spanning version is NP-hard. We propose reduction rules which determine vertices that are required or can be excluded from optimal solutions, a modification of Edmonds algorithm to construct arborescences that span a given set of selected vertices, and embed this procedure into an iterated local search for good vertex selections. Moreover, we propose a cutset-based integer linear programming formulation, provide different linear relaxations to reduce the number of variables in the model and solve the reduced model using a branch-and-cut approach. We give extensive computational results showing that both the heuristic and the exact methods are effective and obtain better solutions on instances from the literature than existing approaches, often in much less time. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
|
|
