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Solving School Bus Routing And Student Assignment Problems With Heuristic And Column Generation Approach., Di Zhang
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
In this dissertation, we solve a school bus routing problem of transporting students including special education (handicapped) students and assigning them in Oldham county education district. The main contribution of this research is that we consider special education students (Type-2) along with other students (Type-1) and design a comprehensive school bus schedule to transport both kinds of students at the same time. Also, a student assignment mathematical model is presented to optimize the number of bus stops in use as well as one important measure of service quality, the total student walking distance. Comparing to the classic clustering methods, heuristic …
Modeling And Simulation Of Networked Control Systems Based On Improved Bp Network, Shifeng Li, Zhanzhi Qiu, Liping Fan, Lina Zhao
Modeling And Simulation Of Networked Control Systems Based On Improved Bp Network, Shifeng Li, Zhanzhi Qiu, Liping Fan, Lina Zhao
Journal of System Simulation
Abstract: In the circumstance where both the delay model and the controlled object model were unknown in networked control systems, a class of networked predictive control systems based on improved BP network were studied. For the problem of obtaining the hidden layer nodes number of BP network, a rapid calculation method was proposed. For the problem of avoiding local optimum of BP network, a hybrid learning method was proposed. A off-line BP network model was proposed for coping with the problem of the delay prediction based on the above algorithms. For the problem of the linear …
A Design Methodology To Optimize Supply Chain Network Performance, Dheeraporn Nippaya, J. David Porter
A Design Methodology To Optimize Supply Chain Network Performance, Dheeraporn Nippaya, J. David Porter
15th IMHRC Proceedings (Savannah, Georgia. USA – 2018)
Organizations are constantly looking for new ways to reduce costs while still providing high customer service levels to face stringent competitive environments and the ever- increasing market globalization. An alternative these organizations can pursue to respond to these challenges and to gain a competitive differentiation is to optimize their supply chain network (SCN). This research aims to develop an effective SCN design strategy to locate facilities (i.e., plants and distribution centers) and to balance the allocation of customers to these facilities to satisfy capacity limitations and customer demands with minimum total cost and maximum level of service. It is anticipated …
Integrated Intermodal Network Design With Nonlinear Inter-Hub Movement Costs, Mohammad Ghane-Ezabadi, Hector A. Vergara
Integrated Intermodal Network Design With Nonlinear Inter-Hub Movement Costs, Mohammad Ghane-Ezabadi, Hector A. Vergara
15th IMHRC Proceedings (Savannah, Georgia. USA – 2018)
In this research, transportation mode and load route selection problems are integrated with the hub location problem in a single mathematical formulation to find the optimal design of intermodal transportation networks. Economies of scale are modeled utilizing a stepwise function that relates the per container transportation cost to the amount of flow between two nodes. A heuristic method combining a genetic algorithm and the shortest path algorithm was developed to solve this integrated planning problem. Computational experiments were completed to evaluate the performance of the proposed heuristic for different problem instances. At the end, conclusions are presented and future research …