This paper investigates angular coverage under uncertainty (ACU). A compact integerprogramming (IP) formulation is developed to model the angular field-of-view (FoV) of sensors and probabilistic coverage under uncert...
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In this paper, the first prediction is made through BP neural network model. And according to the graph and related data, it is found that the prediction results can be well in line with the trend, and the prediction ...
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We present a refined integerprogramming model for the Maximum Cut problem along with new and extended structural results. Through the relationship between odd-cycle inequalities and parity constraints we uncover a fa...
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(纸本)9781611977714
We present a refined integerprogramming model for the Maximum Cut problem along with new and extended structural results. Through the relationship between odd-cycle inequalities and parity constraints we uncover a fast separation routine, and a further analysis of the impact of partitioning decisions leads to a new branching rule. In our computational comparison of branching strategies, we demonstrate a significant impact of our model and techniques on state-of-the-art branch-and-cut algorithms and show that our branching rule improves over previous problem-specific ones.
This article is mainly motivated by the urge to answer two kinds of questions regarding the Bundesliga, which is Germany's primary football (soccer) division having the highest average stadium attendance worldwide...
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This article is mainly motivated by the urge to answer two kinds of questions regarding the Bundesliga, which is Germany's primary football (soccer) division having the highest average stadium attendance worldwide: "At any point in the season, what is the lowest final rank a certain team can achieve?" and "At any point in the season, what is the highest final rank a certain team can achieve?". Although we focus on the Bundesliga in particular, the integerprogramming formulations we introduce to answer these questions can easily be adapted to a variety of other league systems and tournaments.
We address the aircraft recovery problem faced by a Brazilian oil and gas company during its offshore operations. This problem involves hiring helicopters from an outsourced company to transport personnel from an airp...
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We address the aircraft recovery problem faced by a Brazilian oil and gas company during its offshore operations. This problem involves hiring helicopters from an outsourced company to transport personnel from an airport to maritime units. The performed flights are subject to disruptions and might require rescheduling. To assist with decision-making in such situations, we introduce a discrete-time integer linear programming (ILP) model that considers company-specific attributes, including a lexicographic objective function that prioritizes (i) the reduction of flight transfers to the next day;(ii) the reduction of helicopter utilization;and (iii) the reduction of flight delays of the day. We develop four different solution approaches using hierarchical goal programming based on the proposed model, aided by enhancements and valid inequalities. Computational experiments using both real-world and simulated instances demonstrate that our approaches can provide effective solutions for most instances using a general-purpose ILP solver within acceptable computation times.
Most state-of-the-art approaches address speaker diarization as a hierarchical agglomerative clustering problem in the audio domain. In this paper, we propose to revisit one of them: speech turns clustering based on t...
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(纸本)9781629934433
Most state-of-the-art approaches address speaker diarization as a hierarchical agglomerative clustering problem in the audio domain. In this paper, we propose to revisit one of them: speech turns clustering based on the Bayesian Information Criterion (a.k.a. BIC clustering). First, we show how to model it as an integer linear programming (ILP) problem. Its resolution leads to the same overall diarization error rate as standard BIC clustering but generates significantly purer speaker clusters. Then, we describe how this approach can easily be extended to the audiovisual domain and TV broadcast in particular. The straightforward integration of detected overlaid names (used to introduce guests or journalists, and obtained via video OCR) into a multimodal ILP problem yields significantly better speaker diarization results. Finally, we explain how this novel paradigm can incidentally be used for unsupervised speaker identification (i.e. not relying on any prior acoustic speaker models). Experiments on the REPERE TV broadcast corpus show that it achieves performance close to that of an oracle capable of identifying any speaker as long as their name appears on screen at least once in the video.
Due to the growth of e-commerce, promising last-mile delivery options have emerged to manage the rise in delivery frequency and small-volume deliveries. These delivery methods include mobile parcel lockers that are pl...
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Due to the growth of e-commerce, promising last-mile delivery options have emerged to manage the rise in delivery frequency and small-volume deliveries. These delivery methods include mobile parcel lockers that are placed by electric vehicles, which enables customers to receive their packages at any time. This study presents a decision support model for enterprises that utilize mobile parcel lockers in last-mile delivery with pick-up and delivery under horizontal collaboration. The model aims to allocate parcel lockers and route the vehicles with the minimum cost, which encompasses the expenses associated with transportation and placement of the lockers, transportation of customer cargo, vehicle utilization, and payment of drivers. We propose an integer linear programming model for the location routing problem. We present an ILP-based decomposition heuristic and an iterative approach to larger-sized practical instances. A numerical analysis is conducted to see the cost and benefit of bilateral and trilateral collaborations in an illustrative case. According to the results, the total cost is reduced by up to 4.52% for companies in the trilateral collaboration scenario with single warehouses, and by up to 7.32% in the trilateral collaboration scenario with multiple warehouses. We examine the large problem sizes of up to 100 nodes to see the performance of the heuristic approaches compared to the model solutions. The two-stage heuristic achieves the optimal solutions for all instances with a node size 50 in a shorter solution time. The iterative approach allows us to deal with the problem complexity of instances with 75 and 100 nodes and yields 0.88% close solutions to the model on average.
In the nowadays common two-tier logistic systems for delivering products in urban areas, the last leg of the distribution chain, the so-called last mile, is by far the most problematic. The modeling of the last-mile d...
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In the nowadays common two-tier logistic systems for delivering products in urban areas, the last leg of the distribution chain, the so-called last mile, is by far the most problematic. The modeling of the last-mile delivery problem as a variable cost and size bin packing problem with time-dependent costs emerged recently as the best solution for planning the delivery operations. No exact solution has been yet proposed for efficiently solving this variant of the bin packing problem. In this paper, we present a new problem formulation and devise an exact branch-and-bound method for effective and efficient problem resolution. Upon the resulting tailored solution approach, we devise a procedure to speed up the problem resolution further. Numerical results collected on large-sized instances reveal the dramatic reduction of the computation time obtained with our solution approach, which turns out to be up to ten times faster than the commercial solver. The improvement in solving large-sized instances with a relatively easy-to-implement approach is remarkably relevant for real-world applications.
Constructing a suitable schedule for sports competitions is a crucial issue in sports scheduling. The round-robin tournament is a competition adopted in many professional sports. For most round-robin tournaments, it i...
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Constructing a suitable schedule for sports competitions is a crucial issue in sports scheduling. The round-robin tournament is a competition adopted in many professional sports. For most round-robin tournaments, it is considered undesirable that a team plays consecutive away or home matches;such an occurrence is called a break. Accordingly, it is preferable to reduce the number of breaks in a tournament. A common approach is to first construct a schedule and then determine a home-away assignment based on the given schedule to minimize the number of breaks (first-schedule-then-break). In this study, we concentrate on the problem that arises at the second stage of the first-schedule-then-break approach, namely, the break minimization problem (BMP). We propose a novel integer linear programming formulation called the "bigram based formulation." The computational experiments show its effectiveness over the well-known integer linear programming formulation. We also investigate its valid inequalities, which further enhances the computational performance.
Due to the expensive deployment cost, finding the minimum Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) to meet the observability requirement has been attractive since the invention of PMU. Many research efforts have been put to zero...
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Due to the expensive deployment cost, finding the minimum Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) to meet the observability requirement has been attractive since the invention of PMU. Many research efforts have been put to zero-injection nodes (ZINs) in optimal PMU placement (OPP). We revisit OPP and define a full Zero-injection cluster (ZIC) as a set of nodes adjacent to ZINs together with at least one ZIN, establishing a novel ZIC-based OPP model. Compared with the existing literature, the full ZIC can cover more nodes, resulting in a better solution. To find all full ZIC, we propose a dynamic adjacency matrix based full-ZIC search algorithm, which has quadratic-time complexity. It could have wide applications, and can be applied in many OPP works. Besides, redundant PMUs within the full ZIC can be shared within large areas post contingency. A concept of redundancy sharing is proposed for post-contingency ZIC model, whose observability can be guaranteed with proposed redundancy-sharing conditions. Comprehensive case studies are conducted using the proposed approaches. The simulation results for both IEEE cases and a real-world system show the proposed method can further reduce PMU deployment number.
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