复杂地势的无人机灾情巡查新方法

主要针对无人机在抢险救灾中的灾情巡查问题探究新型巡查方法.通过变"覆盖巡查面"为"有效巡查点",将传统的多无人机协同覆盖巡查问题转化为带有避障的VRP问题,并以所有无人机总飞行时间最少为目标建立相应的数学模型.运用MATLAB编写蚁群算法求解VRP中任意两点间的最短避障路线长度矩阵,进而用遗传算法来求解带有避障的VRP问题,得到不同需求下的最少无人机数量,规划出飞行路线.经过案例分析可得,此巡查路线覆盖率达到85.95%,具有较好的实用性.     

以商圈为中心的O2O动态外卖配送路径优化模型与算法

针对线上到线下(Online to Offline,O2O) 外卖路径优化问题,综合考虑其动态配送需求、货物区分等特点以及时间窗、载货量等约束条件,将商圈看作配送中心,将快递员数量与快递员总行驶时间作为最小化目标,提出了以商圈为中心的O2O动态外卖配送路径优化模型。采用周期性处理新订单的方法将相应的快递员路径的动态调整问题转化为一系列静态TSP子问题,设计了一种分阶段启发式实时配送路径优化算法框架,并给出了一个具体算法和一个数值计算实例。在VRP通用算例的基础上,以商圈为中心生成测试算例,对本文算法进行仿真实验,并与其他算法比较。结果表明：本文算法能充分利用新订单附近的快递员进行配送,并优化其配送路径,有效减少了快递员数量与快递员总行驶时间。     

以商圈为中心的O2O动态外卖配送路径优化模型与算法

针对线上到线下(Online to Offline,O2O) 外卖路径优化问题,综合考虑其动态配送需求、货物区分等特点以及时间窗、载货量等约束条件,将商圈看作配送中心,将快递员数量与快递员总行驶时间作为最小化目标,提出了以商圈为中心的O2O动态外卖配送路径优化模型。采用周期性处理新订单的方法将相应的快递员路径的动态调整问题转化为一系列静态TSP子问题,设计了一种分阶段启发式实时配送路径优化算法框架,并给出了一个具体算法和一个数值计算实例。在VRP通用算例的基础上,以商圈为中心生成测试算例,对本文算法进行仿真实验,并与其他算法比较。结果表明：本文算法能充分利用新订单附近的快递员进行配送,并优化其配送路径,有效减少了快递员数量与快递员总行驶时间。     

带集货和配送的多站点VRP优化算法研究

带集货和配送的多站点车辆路线问题(M DVRPPD)是经典VRP的扩展,是多个站点和若干客户既有需求又有供给的VRP问题.研究了该问题的模型并提出了求解该问题的多阶段启发式算法,即先用临界客户的思想把多站点转换为单一站点问题,再使用基于SFC的分组方法来构造初始解,并运用3-opt算法优化回路,之后采用插入算法改善解的可行性,从而得到最终优化解.最后通过实例计算证明了该方法解决M DVRPPD问题的实用可行性和科学有效性.     

不确定运行时间环境下的车辆调度问题及启发式算法

考虑到物流公司或者配送中心车辆实际运行过程中时间的不确定性,提出了配送服务线路包含时间窗口、车辆容量约束的随机规划模型,以最小化车辆运行成本同时尽可能降低所服务顾客的不满意度.同时,又稍作改进给出了平均-风险模型,由于VRP问题是NP难的,给出了一种基于禁忌搜索的启发式算法,并以北京市13个点的为例,给出求解结果.     

随机需求收益最大化分销网络设计问题

研究随机需求的供应链分销网络设计问题。考虑供应商可以选择所服务的零售商,且供应商通过定价决策确定所服务的零售商。针对此问题,建立了一个非线性整数规划模型和一个等价的集合包裹模型,并利用列生成算法求解集合包裹模型,同时提出一种O（ n3 logn）时间的算法求解列生成算法中产生的子问题。数值计算表明,本文所提出的算法具有很好的最优性和可行性。     

随机种群模型数值解的均方散逸性

讨论了随机种群模型数值解的均方散逸性,基于步长受限制和无限制的两种条件,利用补偿的和无补偿的数值方法研究了随机种群模型数值解的均方散逸性.从而得出补偿的数值算法更适合解决随机种群模型数值解的均方散逸性问题.     

顾客延时离开的共享车位预订控制策略研究

基于车位共享用户未按约定时间离开而导致车位使用时间冲突的问题,构建了随机动态规划模型。通过模型,研究了平台的预订控制策略,并针对平台能否拒绝延时需求的情形,设计两种算法对模型进行求解,最后通过数值仿真验证了算法的有效性。研究结果表明:(1)随着预订周期的增加,平台的边际收益会先增加后减少,因此存在最优预订周期;(2)若平台可以决策延时需求是否被接受,则随着延时概率的增加,机会成本将减少,而平台服务率和车位利用率将增加;(3)若平台只能被动接受延时需求,则随着延时概率的增加,平台服务率将减少,而机会成本和车位利用率将增加。     

双模式网络停车限制交通需求管理模型与方法研究

在轨道网和公路网并存的双模式交通网络, 合理设计出行终点的停车容量可优化汽车出行需求, 改善路网交通环境。本文通过分析私家车与城市轨道两种交通模式的出行需求, 并考虑私家车模式的终点停车收费服务, 建立了一种带路段环境容量和终点停车需求容量共同约束的交通需求管理模型。模型中路网使用者的出行模式采用二元Logit模型来计算, 而私家车的路线选择行为服从Logit随机用户均衡, 因此该模型是一个带不动点约束的数学规划问题。针对模型求解困难, 文中采用灵敏度分析来获取各路段流量和需求量关于终点容量波动的梯度信息, 进而设计了一种新的灵敏度分析求解算法.最后通过数值仿真实验, 验证了算法的有效性, 同时分析了不同停车收费参数对模型各指标变化趋势的影响。     

基于精英单亲遗传算法的冷链物流VRP模型优化研究

针对冷链物流配送的特殊性,探索冷链物流车辆路径问题(VRP)优化方案.首先,在保证货物不超载的条件下,建立基于时间和品质因素的顾客满意度约束的多配送中心VRP(MDVRP)模型;其次,采用重心分区法和改进的精英单亲遗传算法,求解顾客在配送中心的分配,确定配送车辆数以及顾客服务次序;最后,用Matlab工具编程对模型进行求解分析.结果表明构建基于满意度的冷链物流MDVRP模型更适合冷链物流配送最优路径选择,并且改进单亲遗传算法能够有效求解这类问题.     

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

We examine neighborhood structures for heuristic search applicable to a general class of vehicle routing problems (VRPs). Our methodology utilizes a cyclic-order solution encoding, which maps a permutation of the customer set to a collection of many possible VRP solutions. We identify the best VRP solution in this collection via a polynomial-time algorithm from the literature. We design neighborhoods to search the space of cyclic orders. Utilizing a simulated annealing framework, we demonstrate the potential of cyclic-order neighborhoods to facilitate the discovery of high quality a priori solutions for the vehicle routing problem with stochastic demand (VRPSD). Without tailoring our solution procedure to this specific routing problem, we are able to match 16 of 19 known optimal VRPSD solutions. We also propose an updating procedure to evaluate the neighbors of a current solution and demonstrate its ability to reduce the computational expense of our approach.     

New mathematical models of the generalized vehicle routing problem and extensions

The generalized vehicle routing problem (GVRP) is an extension of the vehicle routing problem (VRP) and was introduced by Ghiani and Improta [1]. The GVRP is the problem of designing optimal delivery or collection routes from a given depot to a number of predefined, mutually exclusive and exhaustive node-sets (clusters) which includes exactly one node from each cluster, subject to capacity restrictions. The aim of this paper is to provide two new models of the GVRP based on integer programming. The first model, called the node formulation is similar to the Kara-Bekta? formulation [2], but produces a stronger lower bound. The second one, called the flow formulation, is completely new. We show as well that under specific circumstances the proposed models of the GVRP reduces to the well known routing problems. Finally, the GVRP is extended for the case in which the vertices of any cluster of each tour are contiguous. This case is defined as the clustered generalized vehicle routing problem and both of the proposed formulations of GVRP are adapted to clustered case.     

On solving stochastic production planning problems via scenario modelling

Summary Linear Porgramming models for stochastic planning problems and a methodology for solving them are proposed. A production planning problem with uncertainty in demand is used as a test case, but the methodology presented here is applicable to other types of problems as well. In these models, uncertainty in demand is characterized via scenarios. Solutions are obtained for each scenario and then these individual scenario solutions are aggregated to yield an implementable non-anticipative policy. Such an approach makes it possible to model correlated and nonstationary demand as well as a variety of recourse decision types. For computational purposes, two alternative representations are proposed. A compact approach that is suitable for the Simplex method and a splitting variable approach that is suitable for the Interior Point Methods. A crash procedure that generates an advanced starting solution for the Simplex method is developed. Computational results are reported with both the representations. Although some of the models presented here are very large (over 25000 constraints and 75000 variables), our computational experience with these problems is quite encouraging.     

Exact algorithms for the chance-constrained vehicle routing problem

We study the chance-constrained vehicle routing problem (CCVRP), a version of the vehicle routing problem (VRP) with stochastic demands, where a limit is imposed on the probability that each vehicle’s capacity is exceeded. A distinguishing feature of our proposed methodologies is that they allow correlation between random demands, whereas nearly all existing exact methods for the VRP with stochastic demands require independent demands. We first study an edge-based formulation for the CCVRP, in particular addressing the challenge of how to determine a lower bound on the number of vehicles required to serve a subset of customers. We then investigate the use of a branch-and-cut-and-price (BCP) algorithm. While BCP algorithms have been considered the state of the art in solving the deterministic VRP, few attempts have been made to extend this framework to the VRP with stochastic demands. In contrast to the deterministic VRP, we find that the pricing problem for the CCVRP problem is strongly \(\mathcal {NP}\)-hard, even when the routes being priced are allowed to have cycles. We therefore propose a further relaxation of the routes that enables pricing via dynamic programming. We also demonstrate how our proposed methodologies can be adapted to solve a distributionally robust CCVRP problem. Numerical results indicate that the proposed methods can solve instances of CCVRP having up to 55 vertices.     

A model of distributionally robust two-stage stochastic convex programming with linear recourse

We consider distributionally robust two-stage stochastic convex programming problems, in which the recourse problem is linear. Other than analyzing these new models case by case for different ambiguity sets, we adopt a unified form of ambiguity sets proposed by Wiesemann, Kuhn and Sim, and extend their analysis from a single stochastic constraint to the two-stage stochastic programming setting. It is shown that under a standard set of regularity conditions, this class of problems can be converted to a conic optimization problem. Numerical results are presented to show the efficiency of the distributionally robust approach.     

Improved load balancing and resource utilization for the Skill Vehicle Routing Problem

The Skill Vehicle Routing Problem (Skill VRP) considers vehicle routing under the assumption of skill requirements given on demand nodes. These requirements have to be met by the serving vehicles. No further constraints, like capacity or cost restrictions, are imposed. Skill VRP solutions may show a tendency to have a bad load balancing and resource utilization. In a majority of solutions only a subset of vehicles is active. Moreover, a considerable share of demand nodes is served by vehicles that have a skill higher than necessary. A reason for that solution behavior lies in the model itself. As no resource restrictions are imposed, the Skill VRP tends to produce TSP-like solutions. To obtain better balanced solutions, we introduce two new approaches. First we propose a minmax model that aims at minimizing the maximal vehicle tour length. Second we suggest a two-step method combining the minmax approach with a distance constrained model. Our experiments illustrate that these approaches lead to improvements in load balancing and resource utilization, but, with different impact on routing costs.     

Alternate risk measures for emergency medical service system design

The stochastic nature of emergency service requests and the unavailability of emergency vehicles when requested to serve demands are critical issues in constructing valid models representing real life emergency medical service (EMS) systems. We consider an EMS system design problem with stochastic demand and locate the emergency response facilities and vehicles in order to ensure target levels of coverage, which are quantified using risk measures on random unmet demand. The target service levels for each demand site and also for the entire service area are specified. In order to increase the possibility of representing a wider range of risk preferences we develop two types of stochastic optimization models involving alternate risk measures. The first type of the model includes integrated chance constraints (ICCs ), whereas the second type incorporates ICCs  and a stochastic dominance constraint. We develop solution methods for the proposed single-stage stochastic optimization problems and present extensive numerical results demonstrating their computational effectiveness.     

Models for planning capacity expansion of convenience stores under uncertain demand and the value of information

Several stochastic optimization models for planning capacity expansion for convenience store chains (or other similar businesses) are developed that incorporate uncertainty in future demand. All of these models generate schedules for capacity expansion, specifying the size, location, and timing of these expansions in order to maximize the expected profit to the company and to remain within a budget constraint on available resources. The models differ in how uncertainty is incorporated, specifically they differ in the point in the decision-making process that the uncertainty in the demand is resolved. Several measures of the value of information are defined by comparing the results from the different models. Two sample problems are given and their solutions for the various approaches compared.     

随机需求模型和多目标规划模型在会议筹备问题中的应用

首先介绍了单时期随机需求模型和多目标规划模型及其求解方法,然后以实例说明了这两种模型在解决大型会议筹备问题中的应用。