Exact and heuristic approaches for the ship-to-shore problem

IF 6 2区 管理学 Q1 OPERATIONS RESEARCH & MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
M. Wagenvoort , P.C. Bouman , M. van Ee , T. Lamballais Tessensohn , K. Postek
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Abstract

After a natural disaster such as a hurricane or flooding, the navy can help by bringing supplies, clearing roads, and evacuating victims. If destinations cannot be reached over land, resources can be transported using smaller ships and helicopters, called connectors. To start aid on land as soon as possible this must be done efficiently. In the ship-to-shore problem, trips with their accompanying resources are determined while minimising the makespan. Limited (un)loading capacities, heterogeneous connector characteristics and constraints posed by priority of the resources and grouping of the resources (resource sets) all require that the connector trips are carefully coordinated. Despite the criticality of this coordination, existing literature does not consider resource sets and has only developed heuristics. We provide a formulation that incorporates resource sets and develop (i) an exact branch-and-price algorithm and (ii) a tailored greedy heuristic that can provide upper bounds. We find that 84% of our 98 practical instances terminate within an hour in on average 80 s. Our greedy heuristic can find optimal solutions in two-thirds of these instances, mostly for instances that are very constrained in terms of the delivery order of resources. When improvements are found by the branch-and-price algorithm, the average gap with the makespan of the greedy solution is 40% and, in most cases, these improvements are obtained within three minutes. For the 20 artificial instances, the greedy heuristic has consistent performance on the different types of instances. For these artificial instances improvements of on average 35% are found in reasonable time.

船到岸问题的精确方法和启发式方法
飓风或洪水等自然灾害发生后,海军可以通过运送物资、清理道路和疏散灾民来提供帮助。如果陆路无法到达目的地,可以使用小型船只和直升机(称为连接器)运输资源。为了尽快在陆地上展开援助,必须高效地完成这项工作。在 "船到岸 "问题中,在确定行程及其所附资源的同时,要尽量减少时间跨度。有限的(非)装载能力、不同的连接器特性以及资源优先级和资源分组(资源集)所造成的限制,都要求对连接器的行程进行仔细协调。尽管这种协调至关重要,但现有文献并未考虑资源集,而只是开发了启发式方法。我们提供了一个包含资源集的公式,并开发了 (i) 精确的分支-价格算法和 (ii) 一个可提供上限的定制贪婪启发式。我们发现,在 98 个实际实例中,有 84% 的实例能在平均 80 秒内于一小时内结束。我们的贪婪启发式能在三分之二的实例中找到最优解,其中大部分是在资源交付顺序方面非常受限的实例。当通过分支-价格算法找到改进方案时,与贪婪解决方案的平均差距为 40%,而且在大多数情况下,这些改进方案都能在三分钟内完成。在 20 个人工实例中,贪婪启发式在不同类型的实例上表现一致。在合理的时间内,这些人工实例的平均改进幅度为 35%。
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European Journal of Operational Research
European Journal of Operational Research 管理科学-运筹学与管理科学
CiteScore
11.90
自引率
9.40%
发文量
786
审稿时长
8.2 months
期刊介绍: The European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR) publishes high quality, original papers that contribute to the methodology of operational research (OR) and to the practice of decision making.
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