Solving a real-life, large-scale energy management problem

Solving a real-life, large-scale energy management problem

This paper introduces a three-phase heuristic approach for a large-scale energy management and maintenance scheduling problem. The problem is concerned with scheduling maintenance and refueling for nuclear power plants up to five years into the future, while handling a number of scenarios for future demand and prices. The goal is to minimize the expected total production costs. The first phase ...

Free-Floating Bike Sharing: Solving Real-life Large-scale Static Rebalancing Problems Free-Floating Bike Sharing: Solving Real-life Large-scale Static Rebalancing Problems

Free-floating bike sharing (FFBS) is an innovative bike sharing model. FFBS saves on start-up cost, in comparison to stationbased bike sharing (SBBS), by avoiding construction of expensive docking stations and kiosk machines. FFBS prevents bike theft and offers significant opportunities for smart management by tracking bikes in real-time with built-in GPS. However, like SBBS, the success of FFB...

Solving a large scale districting problem: a case report

The paper deals with the problem of defining the territories for I68 sales agents of a German manufacturer of consumer goods. About 1400 postal areas constitute the basic geographical units. The problem is solved by means of a location-allocation approach involving a standard code of a primal network algorithm as well as a new heuristic for resolving split areas. Numerical results and the imple...

Solving a Real-life Time Tabling and Transportation Problem

Many real-life problems in the domain of resource allocation and scheduling require Solutions which are composed of several approaches or techniques. Often, complex problems are divided into sub-problems, subproblems are solved by separate people (agents), who may use different techniques and expertise for solving them, and the sub-problems are combined later to yield a coherent, consistent sol...

Study of Complex Problem-solving in Real Life Problems