Stochastics in discrete logistics models: What can we do?

A large number of logistics problems involve integer programming. Adding stochastics to such a problem seems computationally prohibitive. On the other hand, in most cases, stochastics is an integral part of the underlying problem. And more importantly, without adding stochastics explicitly, we may l...

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Main Authors: Wallace, S.W., Kaut, M., Crainic, T.G., Lium, A.-G.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Costs
Educational institutions
Electric shock
flexibility
Investments
Linear programming
Logistics
options
Robustness
Software standards
Stochastic integer programming
Stochastic processes
Vocabulary
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Summary:A large number of logistics problems involve integer programming. Adding stochastics to such a problem seems computationally prohibitive. On the other hand, in most cases, stochastics is an integral part of the underlying problem. And more importantly, without adding stochastics explicitly, we may lose important aspects of the solution we are searching for. In this presentation we give a new approach to such problems, and apply the approach to service network design.
ISSN:2157-3611
2157-362X
DOI:10.1109/IEEM.2007.4419320