A HIERARCHICAL APPROACH BASED ON LINEAR AND STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING FOR THE EMPTY CONTAINER ALLOCATION PROBLEM

Jorge Luis Morales B., Ciro Alberto Amaya G.

2012

Abstract

This paper proposes a solution method to the problem of allocating an empty container fleet to a set of stocking yards in order to minimize empty container stock and repositioning costs under uncertainties in demand, supply, container damages and repairing times. We propose an approximate solution for the problem based on a hierarchical approach. We used random data from different probability functions to generate problem instances and evaluate robustness and performance. We find that the proposed model solves the single location inventory problem in a very short time while obtaining high robustness and each one can be solved independently. This approach allows liners to reduce the complexity of an aggregate stochastic problem by solving multiple independent stochastic inventory problems. Additionally to other similar works, the presented models consider random container damages and repairing times.

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Luis Morales B. J. and Alberto Amaya G. C. (2012). A HIERARCHICAL APPROACH BASED ON LINEAR AND STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING FOR THE EMPTY CONTAINER ALLOCATION PROBLEM . In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES, ISBN 978-989-8425-97-3, pages 476-479. DOI: 10.5220/0003758004760479


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@conference{icores12,
author={Jorge Luis Morales B. and Ciro Alberto Amaya G.},
title={A HIERARCHICAL APPROACH BASED ON LINEAR AND STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING FOR THE EMPTY CONTAINER ALLOCATION PROBLEM},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES,},
year={2012},
pages={476-479},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003758004760479},
isbn={978-989-8425-97-3},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES,
TI - A HIERARCHICAL APPROACH BASED ON LINEAR AND STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING FOR THE EMPTY CONTAINER ALLOCATION PROBLEM
SN - 978-989-8425-97-3
AU - Luis Morales B. J.
AU - Alberto Amaya G. C.
PY - 2012
SP - 476
EP - 479
DO - 10.5220/0003758004760479