YÖNLÜ İKİ OBJEKTİFLİ ÇİNLİ POSTACI PROBLEMİ İÇİN KESİN ÇÖZÜM YAKLAŞIMLARI

Bu çalışmada iki toplamsal kriterli (toplam maliyet ve toplam mesafe gibi) yönlü çinli postacı problemi ele alınmış ve tüm bastırılamayan objektif vektörlerini yaratmak için iki çözüm yaklaşımı geliştirilmiştir.  Birinci yaklaşım, klasik yaklaşım, karmaşık kesikli doğrusal programların optimal çözümlerini kullanmakta ve bastırılamayan objektif vektör setini seri olarak yaratmaktadır. İkinci yaklaşım, dal ve sınır algoritması, doğrusal programlama gevşetimlerinin optimal çözümlerini kullanmakta ve bastırılamayan objektif vektör setindeki çözümleri aynı anda yaratmaktadır. Deneysel çalışmamızın sonuçları yaklaşımlarımızın büyük boyutlu problemleri makul sürelerde çözdüğünü göstermektedir.

EXACT SOLUTION APPROACHES FOR THE DIRECTED BI-OBJECTIVE CHINESE POSTMAN PROBLEM

In this study, we consider a directed bi-objective Chinese Postman Problem with two additive objectives (like total cost and total distance) and propose two solution approaches to generate all non-dominated objective vectors.  The first approach, namely classical approach, uses the optimal solutions of the mixed integer linear programs and generates the non-dominated objective vectors’ set sequentially. The second approach, namely branch and bound algorithm takes its spirit from the optimal solutions of the linear programming relaxations and generates the non-dominated objective vectors’ set simultaneously. The results of our extensive computational study show that our approaches are capable of solving large-sized problem instances in reasonable times.

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