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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"branch and price"”.
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Branch-and-Price for Prescriptive Contagion Analytics
… in epidemiology, social sciences, engineering, and management. This thesis formalizes prescriptive contagion analytics problems where a centralized decision-maker allocates shared resources across multiple segments of a population, each governed by contagion dynamics. We define four real-world …
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Optimizing Wildfire Suppression: A branch-and-price-and-cut approach
… This thesis defines the Wildfire Suppression and Crew Assignment Problem, which optimizes resource allocation to triage fires based on damage risk, crew availability and spatiotemporal dynamics. We formulate a two-sided set partitioning model on time-space-rest networks for crew assignments …
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Branch-and-Price Method for Stochastic Generalized Assignment Problem, Hospital Staff Scheduling Problem and Stochastic Short-Term Personnel Planning Problem
… dissertation has been focused on exploiting the branch-and-price (BNP) method for the solution of various stochastic mixed integer programming problems (MIPs). In particular, we address the stochastic generalized assignment problem (SGAP), a hospital staff scheduling problem (HSSP), a stochastic …
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Optimal Scheduling of Power Plant Maintenance with Gas Portfolio
… horizon so that the overall costs are minimized and all the constraints are satisfied. Optimization in maintenance scheduling could reduce greenhouse gases and help meeting the surging global energy demand. Maintenance scheduling with gas portfolio could not only cut down the cost for purchasing …
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Solving Large Scale Crew Pairing Problems
… flights of the timetable without breaking rules and regulations which are enforced by an airline. The problem has attracted many scientists in recent decades. The main challenge is that there is no general method to work well with all kinds of non-linear cost functions and rules. In order to …
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Integrated Aircraft Fleeting, Routing, and Crew Pairing Models and Algorithms for the Airline Industry
… have been trying to enhance their market shares and profit margins by composing favorable flight schedules and by efficiently allocating their resources of aircraft and crews so as to reduce operational costs. In practice, this is achieved based on demand forecasts and resource availabilities …
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Meal Delivery Optimisation for the Restaurant Chain
… research. Inspired by the potential challenges and opportunities that the COVID-19 pandemic may present to chain catering food delivery services, this thesis proposes two innovative self-operated meal delivery solutions for restaurant chain companies with practical applicability, named as …
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Sports analytics and optimization for team formation problems
… is the first to consider the NBA's draft, trade, and free agency aspects of player acquisition simultaneously. To inform vital parameters in this model, we develop predictive models to assign amateur players to archetypes, to quantify synergy between archetypes, and to predict the individual value …
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New methods for branch-and-bound algorithms
Branch-and-bound (B&B) algorithms, and extensions such as branch-and-price (B&P) are powerful tools for optimization. These algorithms are used in a wide variety of settings, and thus it is beneficial to develop new techniques to improve the performance of B&B algorithms that are independent of the …
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Topics in Packing and Scheduling
Packing and scheduling models include some of the most fundamental problems in operations research and computer science. These broad classes include a wide range of models with applications including logistics, production planning, wireless network design, circuit design, and cloud computing, to …
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Strategic Planning Models and Approaches to Improve Distribution Planning in the Industrial Gas Industry
… represents a multi-billion dollar global market and provides essential product to manufacturing and service organizations that drive the global economy. In this dissertation, we focus on improving distribution efficiency in the industrial gas industry by addressing the strategic level problem of …
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Enhanced Formulations for Minimax and Discrete Optimization Problems with Applications to Scheduling and Routing
… development of enhanced formulations for minimax and mixed-integer programming models for certain industrial and logistical systems, along with the design and implementation of efficient algorithmic strategies. We first examine the general class of minimax mixed-integer 0-1 problems of the type …