Operations Research Proceedings 2013: Selected Papers of the by Dennis Huisman, Ilse Louwerse, Albert P.M. Wagelmans (eds.)

By Dennis Huisman, Ilse Louwerse, Albert P.M. Wagelmans (eds.)

This ebook incorporates a number of refereed papers provided on the “International convention on Operations study (OR 2013)” which happened at Erasmus college Rotterdam September 3-6, 2013. The convention was once together equipped by way of the German and the Dutch OR Society. greater than 800 scientists and scholars from over 50 international locations attended OR 2013 and awarded greater than six hundred papers in parallel topical streams, in addition to particular award periods. The topic of the convention and its complaints is "Impact on humans, enterprise and Society".

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As trains 1 and 2 go from B to C in one direction, train 3 goes from C to B in the opposite direction without violating the headway constraints. The time until the last train (train 2) arrives is 5Δ + δ. Suppose we have a route-wise and locally optimal strategy. Let us consider r 1 , the route corresponding to train 1. By route-wise optimality, we know that exactly one traversal time is rounded down. If this time corresponds to either track AB or track C D, we know that the remaining two tracks form a subroute with an overestimating error of Δ, which contradicts local optimality.

The paper [12] is probably the closest to the original Feasibility Pump for MIPs. It performs a simple rounding to the nearest integer in the rounding step and solves a convex NLP relaxation with an Φ1 objective for the projection step. In [11], the authors suggest using an Φ2 norm as objective for the projection step. The most significant difference to [12], however, is the implementation of the rounding step. Instead of performing an instant rounding to the nearest integer, they solve a MIP relaxation based on an outer approximation [16] of the underlying MINLP.

70 households and allows for choosing an appropriate storage size. The approach now provides the basis for further analyses of the economic profitability of such systems as well as service related business models. Possible enhancements of the approach include the implementation of a physical model to generate heat demand profiles, the development of a tailor-made optimisation module and the increase of the time resolution. Moreover, the uncertainties associated with the input data of the different modules and their impact on the results needs to be analysed and visualised in more detail.

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