linear second order recursive sequences with arbitrary initial conditions are studied. For sequences with the same parameters a ring and a group is attached, and isomorphisms and homomorphisms are established for rela...
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Energy saving and environmental protection are important issues of today. Concerning the environmental and social need to increase the utilization of used products, this paper introduces two remanufacturing reverse lo...
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Energy saving and environmental protection are important issues of today. Concerning the environmental and social need to increase the utilization of used products, this paper introduces two remanufacturing reverse logistics (RL) network models, namely, the open-loop model and the closed-loop model. In an open-loop RL system, used products are recovered by outside firms, while in a closed-loop RL system, they are returned to their original producers. The open-loop model features a location selection with two layers. For this model, a mixed-integerlinear program (MILP) is built to minimize the total costs of the open-loop RL system, including the fixed cost, the freight between nodes, the operation cost of storage and remanufacturing centers, the penalty cost of unmet or remaining demand quantity, and the government-provided subsidy given to the enterprises that protect the environment. This MILP is solved using an adaptive genetic algorithm with MATLAB simulation. For a closed-loop RL network model, a special demand function considering the relationship between new and remanufactured products is developed. Remanufacturing rate, environmental awareness, service demand elasticity, value-added services, and their impacts on total profit of the closed-loop supply chain are analyzed. The closed-loop RL network model is proved effective through the analysis of a numerical example.
In this paper, we study a real scheduling problem which consists in scheduling a set of elective surgical cases requiring surgical instruments and tools in several operating rooms. The objectives are to minimise the o...
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In this paper, we study a real scheduling problem which consists in scheduling a set of elective surgical cases requiring surgical instruments and tools in several operating rooms. The objectives are to minimise the overtime of the surgical unit staff, the number of operating rooms used and the number of instruments processed in emergency in the sterilising unit while respecting the current level of service represented by the total number of patients operated per month at the orthopaedic surgery unit. This research was performed in collaboration with the University Hospital of Angers in France (CHU Angers), which has also provided historical data for the experiments. We propose a mixedintegerlinearprogramming model for the problem which is solved in a lexicographic fashion. We also propose a robust formulation to deal with the uncertain surgery durations. Both the deterministic and robust formulations are then compared over a set of instances provided by the CHU. The solutions obtained are competitive in terms of number of operating rooms and significantly improve those implemented operationally at the CHU in terms of overtime and emergencies at the sterilising unit.
This paper addresses the problem of scheduling n identical jobs on a set of m parallel uniform machines. The jobs are subjected to conflicting constraints modelled by an undirected graph G, in which adjacent jobs are ...
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This paper addresses the problem of scheduling n identical jobs on a set of m parallel uniform machines. The jobs are subjected to conflicting constraints modelled by an undirected graph G, in which adjacent jobs are not allowed to be processed on the same machine. Minimising the maximum completion time in the schedule (makespan C-max) is known to be NP-hard. We prove that when G is restricted to complete bipartite graphs the problem remains NP-hard for arbitrary number of machines, however, if m is fixed an optimal solution can be obtained in polynomial time. To solve the general case of the problem, we propose mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) formulations alongside with lower bounds and heuristic approaches. Furthermore, computational experiments are carried out to measure the performance of the proposed methods. (C) 2019 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
Trajectory planning for connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) has been studied at both isolated intersections and multiple intersections under the fully CAV environment in the literature. However, most of the existi...
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Trajectory planning for connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) has been studied at both isolated intersections and multiple intersections under the fully CAV environment in the literature. However, most of the existing studies only model limited interactions of vehicle trajectories at the microscopic level, without considering the coordination between vehicle trajectories. This study proposes a mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) model to cooperatively optimize the trajectories of CAVs along a corridor for system optimality. The car-following and lane-changing behaviors of each vehicle along the entire path are optimized together. The trajectories of all vehicles along the corridor are coordinated for system optimality in terms of total vehicle delay. All vehicle movements (i.e., left-turning, through, and right-turning) are considered at each intersection. The ingress lanes are not associated with any specific movement and can be used for all vehicle movements, which provides much more flexibility. Vehicles are controlled to pass through intersections without traffic signals. Due to varying traffic conditions, the planning horizon is adaptively adjusted in the implementation procedure of the proposed model to find a balance between solution feasibility and computational burden. Numerical studies validate the advantages of the proposed CAV-based control over the coordinated fixed-time control at different demand levels in terms of vehicle delay and throughput. The analyses of the safety time gaps for collision avoidance within intersection areas show the promising benefits of traffic management under the fully CAV environment.
One of the important issues in the operation of a long-distance oil pipeline in a large-slope area is pressure control, especially for the section after the turning point. In this study, a method to optimally design a...
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One of the important issues in the operation of a long-distance oil pipeline in a large-slope area is pressure control, especially for the section after the turning point. In this study, a method to optimally design an oil pipeline with a large-slope section is proposed. The method is based on a stochastic mixed-integer linear programming model with minimal total cost as the objective function to determine the size of the pipeline, the location, the operational plan of pump stations and the location of pressure reduction stations. Hydraulic calculations and different types of oil product are considered. The uncertainty in flow rates of the pipeline is studied by the proposed stochastic programming approach. This method is applied to a real case of designing an oil product pipeline in a large-slope area.
Multi-manned assembly lines are commonly found in industries that manufacture large-size products (e.g. automotive industry), in which multiple workers are assigned to the same station in order to perform different op...
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Multi-manned assembly lines are commonly found in industries that manufacture large-size products (e.g. automotive industry), in which multiple workers are assigned to the same station in order to perform different operations simultaneously on the same product. Although the balancing problem of multi manned assembly lines had been modelled before, the previously presented exact mathematical formulations are only able to solve few small-size instances, while larger cases are solved by heuristics or metaheuristics that do not guarantee optimality. This work presents a new mixed-integer linear programming model with strong symmetry break constraints and decomposes the original problem into a new Benders' Decomposition Algorithm to solve large instances optimally. The proposed model minimises the total number of workers along the line and the number of opened stations as weighted primary and secondary objectives, respectively. Besides, feasibility cuts and symmetry break constraints based on combinatorial Benders' cuts and model's parameters are applied as lazy constraints to reduce search-space by eliminating infeasible sets of allocations. Tests on a literature dataset have shown that the proposed mathematical model outperforms previously developed formulations in both solution quality and computational processing time for small-size instances. Moreover, the proposed Benders' Decomposition Algorithm yielded 117 optimal results out of a 131-instances dataset. Compared to previously presented methods, this translates to 19 and 25 new best solutions reached for medium and large-size instances, respectively, of which 19 and 23 are optimal solutions. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
We propose three strategies by which a professor of a university course can assign final letter grades taking into account the natural uncertainty in students' individual assignment and final numerical grades. The...
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We propose three strategies by which a professor of a university course can assign final letter grades taking into account the natural uncertainty in students' individual assignment and final numerical grades. The first strategy formalizes a common technique that identifies large gaps in the final numerical grades. For the second and third strategies, we introduce the notion of a borderline student, that is, a student who is close to, but below, the breakpoint for the next highest letter grade. Using mixed-integer linear programming and a tailor-made branch-and-bound algorithm, we choose the letter-grade breakpoints to minimize the number of borderline students. In particular, the second strategy treats the uncertainty implicitly and minimizes the number of borderline students, while the third strategy uses a robust-optimization approach to minimize the maximum number of borderline students that could occur based on an explicit uncertainty set. We compare the three strategies on realistic instances and identify overall trends as well as some interesting exceptions. While no strategy appears best in all cases, each can be computed in a reasonable amount of time for a moderately sized course. Moreover, they collectively provide the professor important insight into how uncertainty affects the assignment of final letter grades. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
This paper presents a mixed-integerlinear optimisation model to analyse the intermodal transportation systems in the Turkish transportation industry. The solution approach includes mathematical modelling, data analys...
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This paper presents a mixed-integerlinear optimisation model to analyse the intermodal transportation systems in the Turkish transportation industry. The solution approach includes mathematical modelling, data analysis from real-life cases and solving the resulting mathematical programming problem to minimise total transportation cost and carbon dioxide emissions by using two different exact solution methods in order to find the optimal solutions. The novel approach of this paper generates Pareto solutions quickly and allows the decision makers to identify sustainable solutions by using a newly developed solution methodology for bi-objective mixed-integerlinear problems in real-life cases.
Improving energy efficiency has been one of main objectives in modern manufacturing enterprises. Various approaches aiming at efficient energy management have been proposed/developed, among which minimizing energy con...
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Improving energy efficiency has been one of main objectives in modern manufacturing enterprises. Various approaches aiming at efficient energy management have been proposed/developed, among which minimizing energy consumption by energy-sensible production scheduling techniques has emerged as a promising one. However, reported workshop models are quite simple and unrealistic. This paper studies a more realistic workshop model called ultra-flexible job shop (uFJS). In an uFJS, the sequence among operations for a job can be changed within certain constraints. To formulate this energy-efficient scheduling problem, a mixed-integer linear programming model was developed. To deal with large-sized problems, a specially designed genetic algorithm (GA) was subsequently proposed and implemented. Numerical results showed the proposed GA worked with decent effectiveness and efficiency. Finally, several comparative studies are carried out to further demonstrate its efficacy in terms of energy efficiency improvement. The advantage of the uFJS as compared to other relative simple workshop models is also shown. By considering the flexibility in operation sequencing in each job, the uFJS effectively integrates process planning and scheduling in discrete parts manufacturing system, thus providing a much larger solution space for more energy-efficient solutions. It therefore provides an excellent platform for decision-makers when developing energy-efficient techniques and strategies
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