Inverse Scheduling: Applications in Shipping
Optimization problems are concerned with finding optimal solutions with respect to some objective functions with given problem parameters. Inverse optimization refers to the situation where the problem parameters are minimally adjusted so that a given feasible solution becomes an optimal solution with respect to the objective function. This paper studies inverse optimization of single-machine scheduling problems to minimize the total weighted completion time, whereby the processing times and the weights are minimally adjusted, respectively, so that a given feasible schedule becomes an optimal schedule, under the constraint that the objective value based on the adjusted parameters is no worse than that based on the original parameters. Three distance measures are considered for each of the problems under study. Such scheduling problems are known as inverse scheduling, which has wide applications including berth allocation in quayside in shipping operations.
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Authors:
- Zhang, Fan
- Ng, C T
- Tang, G
- Cheng, T C E
- Lun, Y H V
- Publication Date: 2011
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Print
- Features: References;
- Pagination: pp 312-322
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Serial:
- International Journal of Shipping and Transport Logistics
- Volume: 3
- Issue Number: 3
- Publisher: Inderscience Enterprises Limited
- ISSN: 1756-6517
- EISSN: 1756-6525
- Serial URL: http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijstl
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Berth utilization; Berthing facilities; Landside operations (Ports); Ocean shipping; Optimization; Port capacity; Port operations; Schedules and scheduling
- Uncontrolled Terms: Inverse analysis
- Subject Areas: Marine Transportation; Planning and Forecasting;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01353949
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Oct 19 2011 12:52PM