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Solving Large‐Scale Weapon Target Assignment Problems in Seconds Using Branch‐Price‐And‐Cut

open access: yesNaval Research Logistics (NRL), EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper proposes a framework based on branch‐price‐and‐cut to solve the weapon target assignment (WTA) problem, a popular class of non‐linear assignment problems that has received significant attention over the past several decades. We first reformulate the WTA into a form amenable to column generation and then derive efficient algorithms ...
Dimitris Bertsimas, Alex Paskov
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating the Waves: The Global Pandemic's Impact on Container Shipping and Freight Rates Across Different Policy Scenarios

open access: yesNaval Research Logistics (NRL), EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The COVID‐19 pandemic has reverberated across global industries, including the international container shipping industry, where freight rates have become highly volatile. However, shipping lines appeared to thrive, particularly during the pandemic's initial 2 years.
Shiyuan Zheng, Changmin Jiang
wiley   +1 more source

An Exact Algorithm for the Hazardous Orienteering Problem

open access: yesNetworks, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The hazardous orienteering problem is the topic of this study. It is a variant of the well‐studied orienteering problem, where a vehicle, given a maximum mission time, has to select and visit customers out of a set of requests, aiming at maximizing the total profit associated with the customers selected. In the hazardous version of the problem
Roberto Montemanni, Derek H. Smith
wiley   +1 more source

Stability of Interdiction Strategies in Quickest Flow Networks

open access: yesNetworks, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Many, if not all, societies have experienced natural disasters, public protests, traffic congestion, and the smuggling of dangerous goods, among other similar events. Such decision‐making and managerial problems can be studied using a game‐theoretic approach on specific networks.
Shahram Morowati‐Shalilvand   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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