In the present study, we concentrate on the formulation and the exact solution of a specific vehicle routing problem with environmental concerns, which is a complex actual problem of staff service bus route planning f...
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In the present study, we concentrate on the formulation and the exact solution of a specific vehicle routing problem with environmental concerns, which is a complex actual problem of staff service bus route planning for a university in a metropolitan city. Taking into account the air pollution related measures for representing the cost of environmental concerns in addition to the vehicle rental and fuel consumption related operational costs, we formulate a flow-based mixed integerlinear program for the environment-friendly school bus routing problem specific to both homogeneous and heterogeneous vehicle fleets. We provide exact solutions to the instance sets we have designed specific to variants of the problem considering the fleet type, vehicle capacity, and maximum route length. Results from model based exact solutions for our formulations show up to 30% of reduction in the overall cost for the heterogeneous fleet case when compared to the homogeneous ones, and suggest a routing plan that enables the utilization of almost the entire capacity of all the buses assigned. We discuss in details the trade-offs between the cost items, travel times, and travel distances in composing a vehicle fleet considering the demand sprawled over the metropolitan area.
In an attempt to simplify the mathematical solution of real-world systems, further presumptions such as an integer order system and zero initial condition lead to imprecise and incorrect system modeling. By modeling r...
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Storyline drawings are a popular visualization of interactions of a set of characters over time, e.g., to show participants of scenes in a book or movie. Characters are represented as x-monotone curves that converge v...
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We investigate certified robustness for GNNs under graph injection attacks. Existing research only provides sample-wise certificates by verifying each node independently, leading to very limited certifying performance...
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We investigate certified robustness for GNNs under graph injection attacks. Existing research only provides sample-wise certificates by verifying each node independently, leading to very limited certifying performance. In this paper, we present the first collective certificate, which certifies a set of target nodes simultaneously. To achieve it, we formulate the problem as a binary integer quadratic constrained linearprogramming (BQCLP). We further develop a customized linearization technique that allows us to relax the BQCLP into linearprogramming (LP) that can be efficiently solved. Through comprehensive experiments, we demonstrate that our collective certification scheme significantly improves certification performance with minimal computational overhead. For instance, by solving the LP within 1 minute on the Citeseer dataset, we achieve a significant increase in the certified ratio from 0.0% to 81.2% when the injected node number is 5% of the graph size. Our paper marks a crucial step towards making provable defense more practical. Our source code is available at https://***/Yuni-Lai/CollectiveLPCert. Copyright 2024 by the author(s)
In this paper, an in-depth study is conducted on the problem of cultivation strategy of arable land, and a robust optimization model based on 0-1 integerprogramming is established. The objective is to optimize cultiv...
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This article introduces directional link cost to shortest path problem and demonstrates extension of its application through robust optimization approach. We show that under budget uncertainty set this problem can be ...
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Virtualized cloud data centers play a crucial role in modern computing infrastructure, facilitating dynamic resource allocation and scalability. Efficient management of virtual machines (VMs) within these environments...
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Today's growth in the volume of wireless devices coupled with the demand for data-intensive use cases has motivated the deployment of millimeter-wave (mmWave) small-cell networks. Although it is true that mmWave n...
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Today's growth in the volume of wireless devices coupled with the demand for data-intensive use cases has motivated the deployment of millimeter-wave (mmWave) small-cell networks. Although it is true that mmWave networks can carry a large volume of traffic, highly intermittent connectivity and the challenges related to installing many small-cell base stations (BSs) in urban geometry have impeded its progression into practical networks. To cope with these challenges, we present, in this paper, an approach to the mmWave BS deployment (site planning) problem, based on the minimum-deployment-cost criterion that is subject to user equipment (UE) outage constraints. Unlike the prior works, the proposed model captures the randomness of link blockage and signal-to-interference-plus-noise-ratio (SINR) statistics in mmWave networks. We formulate the minimum-cost deployment problem as large-scale integer nonlinearprogramming (INP). To deal with the coupled and combinatorial of the problem, the large-scale INP has approached to devise a suboptimal but efficient algorithm by decomposing it into two subproblems: (i) cell coverage optimization and (ii) minimum subset selection. We provide the solutions to each subproblem as well as theoretical justifications of them. Simulation results that illustrate UE outage guarantees of the proposed BS deployment method are presented. The results reveal that the proposed method uniquely distributes the macro-diversity orders that are distinct from other benchmarks.
To meet the operational requirements and to ensure safe operations, train units of a passenger railway operator require inspection and/or cleaning at the maintenance depots after running a specified mileage or time pe...
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To meet the operational requirements and to ensure safe operations, train units of a passenger railway operator require inspection and/or cleaning at the maintenance depots after running a specified mileage or time period. Accordingly, these inspection and cleaning activities are called depot services. In this paper, we propose an integer linear programming (ILP) model for the integrated optimization problem of depot service scheduling, train parking, and train routing. Both short trains (8 marshaling) and long trains (16 marshaling) are considered in the ILP model which is a combinational optimization problem in the dead-end tracks scenario. Moreover, a real-world case study of the Shanghai South Depot, China is carried out to further examine the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed methodology. Computational results indicate that our method is able to generate optimized shunting plans for the linearized INLP within reasonable solution time for real-life applications, outperforming the manual method in terms of the solution quality and the computation speed.
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to present a reliability centered maintenance (RCM) embedded integer linear programming approach (suited to the budget monetary resources allocation task) to the maintenance stra...
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Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to present a reliability centered maintenance (RCM) embedded integer linear programming approach (suited to the budget monetary resources allocation task) to the maintenance strategies mix selection for an industrial plant equipment. Design/methodology/approach - The developed approach allows to determine the optimal maintenance strategies mix for a set of equipment in a more quantitative way than the classic RCM approach. The proposed model takes into account, for each potential failure determined using the FMECA and for each admissible strategy, the costs and the potential risk priority number (RPN) reduction. Finally, an industrial case concerning an Italian paper-mill plant is reported to demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach presented. Findings - The paper finds that the application of the proposed approach allows to optimally allocate the budget monetary resources, determining which suitable maintenance practice apply to each failure, taking into account the costs of each strategy and the potential reduction of the RPN. Practical implications - The proposed model permits to assign (during the budget monetary resources allocation task) to each failure the optimal strategy, among a set of suitable maintenance practices, considering the costs and the estimated RPN reduction. Originality/value - The paper proposes a completely new RCM embedded approach to the maintenance strategies selection, in order to optimally allocate the budget monetary resources. This model overcomes the limits of the traditional RCM approach, taking into account quantitative aspects, i.e. the compatibility constraint between failures and policies, the maintenance strategies costs, and the RPN estimated reduction.
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