The Analytic Hierarchy Process is a useful tool for multiobjective decision making in its own right. In addition, it has the potential for expediting multiple objective programming analyses. multipleobjective program...
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The Analytic Hierarchy Process is a useful tool for multiobjective decision making in its own right. In addition, it has the potential for expediting multiple objective programming analyses. multiple objective programming techniques face the problem of a large (if not infinite) number of alternatives. Generally, the problem involves optimizing some unexpressed utility function over a feasible region. AHP provides a useful means of obtaining an initial linear approximation of this unexpressed utility function, with the potential of expediting the MOP analysis. Other benefits include enhancing decision maker learning through use of the consistency measure. Problems discussed are the impact of comparing many objectives, the sensitivity of the consistency index, and the use of the eigen vector as a literal estimator of utility.
A real-world application involving the relocation and phase-out of a combined manufacturing plant and warehousing facility is presented in this paper. The relocation and phase-out decision was called for to adapt to d...
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A real-world application involving the relocation and phase-out of a combined manufacturing plant and warehousing facility is presented in this paper. The relocation and phase-out decision was called for to adapt to dynamic changes in business environments surrounding the firm's supply chain operations. Such changes include changes in supplier and customer bases, distribution networks, corporate re-engineering, business climate, and government legislation. To aid management in formulating more effective relocation strategy, we assess the viability of the proposed site from multi-echelon supply chain perspectives and determine the optimal timing of relocation and phase-out in the multiple planning horizon using a dynamic, multipleobjective, mixed-integer programming model. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
Nowadays, sustainability is a major factor to consider in the decision-making process. Specifically, for companies trying to stay competitive and having some advantage in the market it is a vital issue. In this study,...
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ISBN:
(数字)9783319595139
ISBN:
(纸本)9783319595139;9783319595122
Nowadays, sustainability is a major factor to consider in the decision-making process. Specifically, for companies trying to stay competitive and having some advantage in the market it is a vital issue. In this study, we introduce a multi objective problem which aims to minimize distance and latency of a route with enough capacity to serve a set of clients. We assume that a vehicle leaves an established depot, visits all clients and returns to the depot before the end of the workday. With this bi-objective problem, we aim to improve the sustainability of the company by improving their economic and environmental contribution, through the minimization of the traveled distance of the vehicle along with the improvement of their social service by the minimization of the total waiting time of the customers. We call this problem Minimum Latency-Distance Problem (MLDP) and in this paper, we introduce a mathematical formulation which describes it.
Basing ourselves on general results we investigate stability of Pareto points to finite-dimensional parametric multipleobjective optimization problems (linear and/or convex). (C) 2003 Published by Elsevier B.V.
Basing ourselves on general results we investigate stability of Pareto points to finite-dimensional parametric multipleobjective optimization problems (linear and/or convex). (C) 2003 Published by Elsevier B.V.
Technology roadmaps have already been widely adopted as an important management tool during the past three decades after the invention of the management tool by Motorola in the 1980s. The technology road-mapping proce...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781643681153;9781643681146
Technology roadmaps have already been widely adopted as an important management tool during the past three decades after the invention of the management tool by Motorola in the 1980s. The technology road-mapping processes which can be integrated with firms' competence sets are very important for strategy definitions. However, how the uncertainties being associated with the costs, time, quality, etc. for technology road mapping were seldom discussed, not to mention how various objectives can be considered at the same time. Thus, this research aims to propose a fuzzy multiple objective programming based competence set expansion technique to resolve the above mentioned technology road-mapping problem. An empirical study based on the road-mapping of novel compressors for air conditioners will be used to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed framework. The well-verified analytic framework can serve as a basis for research and development (R&D) strategy definitions by practitioners.
In this paper, we propose a method for determining all minimal representations of a face of a polyhedron defined by a system of linear inequalities. Main difficulties for determining prime and minimal representations ...
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In this paper, we propose a method for determining all minimal representations of a face of a polyhedron defined by a system of linear inequalities. Main difficulties for determining prime and minimal representations of a face are that the deletion of one redundant constraint can change the redundancy of other constraints and the number of descriptor index pairs for the face can be huge. To reduce computational efforts in finding all minimal representations of a face, we prove and use properties that deleting strongly redundant constraints does not change the redundancy of other constraints and all minimal representations of a face can be found only in the set of all prime representations of the face corresponding to the maximal descriptor index set for it. The proposed method is based on a top-down search strategy, is easy to implement, and has many computational advantages. Based on minimal representations of a face, a reduction of degeneracy degrees of the face and ideas to improve some known methods for finding all maximal efficient faces in multipleobjective linear programming are presented. Numerical examples are given to illustrate the method.
This paper is concerned with a bicriteria combinatorial optimization Problem and its applications to the design of communication networks for distributed controllers. In a bipartite graph, a subset of the edges yields...
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This paper is concerned with a bicriteria combinatorial optimization Problem and its applications to the design of communication networks for distributed controllers. In a bipartite graph, a subset of the edges yields a communication network for which we pay a price but, on the other hand, it induces another network that encompasses the former and for which we receive a reward. The problem is then to find the efficient solutions. The paper delivers an IP formulation for the problem of finding supported solutions, which is shown to be NP-Hard, along with families of strong valid inequalities, which are shown to draw the LP bounds closer to the Pareto optimal frontier. To approximate the frontier, heuristics are integrated in a problem-solving architecture called asynchronous team and then put to the test in two prototypical scenarios. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
This paper presents an approach for solving the train scheduling for high-speed passenger railroad planning problem through the particle swarm optimization(PSO) for the first time. PSO has demonstrated the ability to ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0780395387
This paper presents an approach for solving the train scheduling for high-speed passenger railroad planning problem through the particle swarm optimization(PSO) for the first time. PSO has demonstrated the ability to deal with non-convex, nonlinear, integer-mixed optimization problems. In this formulation, the objective function consists of two terms: the variation of inter-departure times for highspeed trains and the total travel time. This combination of terms results in a non-linear objective function. A case on the train scheduling for high-speed passenger railroad planning problem is presented to show the methodology's feasibility and efficiency, compared with the existing optimal planning methods, the search time of the particle swarm optimization method is shorter and the result is close to the ideal solution, simultaneously.
The effective management of natural resources is a critical issue that concerns many people with differing interests. This paper examines aspects of overcapacity and optimal capacity within fisheries by accounting for...
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Every day many service companies need to plan the tasks that will be carried out by its field staff. Maintenance service technicians have to perform a set of jobs at different locations in a city or state. This proble...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9783030876722;9783030876715
Every day many service companies need to plan the tasks that will be carried out by its field staff. Maintenance service technicians have to perform a set of jobs at different locations in a city or state. This problem can be defined as the Service Technician Routing and Scheduling Problem in which tasks have different priorities and time windows, and technicians have different skills and working hours. Scheduling must account for technicians' lunch breaks, which must be respected. Each task is performed by only one technician. To ensure quality customer service and consumer rights are upheld, a novel approach is proposed: to address the problem in a multi-objective context aiming to execute the priority tasks and, simultaneously, to serve the customers at the beginning of their time windows. A Multi-objective Biased Random-Key Genetic Algorithm (BRKGA) was customized to tackle this NP-hard optimization problem and then compared with the Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II (NSGA-II). The analyzed methods showed similar performance for small instances, but for medium- and large-sized instances the proposed method presented superior performance and more robust results.
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