A Case of the Container-Vessel Scheduling Problem

Selim Bora, Endre Boros, Lei Lei, W. Art Chaovalitwongse, Gino J. Lim, Hamid R. Parsaei

2014

Abstract

We study a difficult real life scheduling problem encountered in oil and petrochemical industry, involving inventory and distribution operations, which requires integrated scheduling. The problem itself is NP-complete, however we show some special cases, and propose polynomial time solution methods. These could be used as a starting point for a heuristic making use of these simplified cases. This study proposes two alternative approaches for the main problem, one of them making use of one of the special cases using minimum cost flow formulation, and the other one using Benders Decomposition once the problem is reformulated to make it easier to handle. Both results show promising results and computation time. Benders Decomposition approach allows exact solutions to be found in a much faster fashion.

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Bora S., Boros E., Lei L., Art Chaovalitwongse W., J. Lim G. and R. Parsaei H. (2014). A Case of the Container-Vessel Scheduling Problem . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES, ISBN 978-989-758-017-8, pages 63-71. DOI: 10.5220/0004831400630071


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icores14,
author={Selim Bora and Endre Boros and Lei Lei and W. Art Chaovalitwongse and Gino J. Lim and Hamid R. Parsaei},
title={A Case of the Container-Vessel Scheduling Problem},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES,},
year={2014},
pages={63-71},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004831400630071},
isbn={978-989-758-017-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES,
TI - A Case of the Container-Vessel Scheduling Problem
SN - 978-989-758-017-8
AU - Bora S.
AU - Boros E.
AU - Lei L.
AU - Art Chaovalitwongse W.
AU - J. Lim G.
AU - R. Parsaei H.
PY - 2014
SP - 63
EP - 71
DO - 10.5220/0004831400630071