A worst-case analysis for the split delivery capacitated team orienteering problem with minimum delivery amounts

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 8 - Trang 2349-2356 - 2014
Xingyin Wang1, Bruce Golden2, Damon Gulczynski3
1Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
2Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
3RouteSmart Technologies, Inc., Columbia, USA

Tóm tắt

In the capacitated team orienteering problem, a fleet of vehicles visits and services a subset of customers in order to maximize the total profit collected while obeying capacity and route length constraints. In the split delivery team orienteering problem (SDCTOP), multiple vehicles can service the same customer; each vehicle satisfies some, but not all, of the customer demand. Allowing split deliveries may double the total profit, in the extreme case. However, split deliveries often cause inconvenience to the customers, so we introduce the split delivery team orienteering problem with minimum delivery amounts (SDCTOP–MDA). In this paper, we perform a worst-case analysis on the SDCTOP–MDA to determine tight bounds on the maximum possible profit increase.

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