Soft clustering-based scenario bundling for a progressive hedging heuristic in stochastic service network design

X Jiang, R Bai, SW Wallace, G Kendall… - Computers & Operations …, 2021 - Elsevier
We present a method for bundling scenarios in a progressive hedging heuristic (PHH)
applied to stochastic service network design, where the uncertain demand is represented by …

Maximizing the utilization of existing grids for renewable energy integration

H Ranjbar, M Kazemi, N Amjady, H Zareipour… - Renewable Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents a new model to maximize the utilization of existing transmission system
infrastructure by optimally sizing and siting the future developments of variable renewable …

Ambulance redeployment and dispatching under uncertainty with personnel workload limitations

S Enayati, OY Özaltın, ME Mayorga, C Saydam - IISE Transactions, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Emergency Medical Services (EMS) managers are concerned with responding
to emergency calls in a timely manner. Redeployment and dispatching strategies can be …

A shared-mobility-based framework for evacuation planning and operations under forecast uncertainty

K Moug, H Jia, S Shen - IISE Transactions, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
To meet evacuation needs from carless populations who need personalized assistance to
evacuate safely, in this article we propose a ridesharing-based evacuation program that …

Chance-constrained multiple bin packing problem with an application to operating room planning

S Wang, J Li, S Mehrotra - INFORMS Journal on Computing, 2021 - pubsonline.informs.org
We study the chance-constrained bin packing problem, with an application to hospital
operating room planning. The bin packing problem allocates items of random sizes that …

Fourth-party logistics network design with demand surge: A greedy scenario-reduction and scenario-price based decomposition algorithm

S Jiang, M Huang, Y Zhang, X Wang… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
The sharing economy has offered new viable approaches for firms to tackle demand surges.
In this paper, we study a novel network design problem for the fourth-party logistics network …

Stochastic service network design: The value of fixed routes

C Liu, S Lin, ZJM Shen, J Zhang - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study introduces a challenging service network design problem with stochastic
demands and fixed routes. In this problem, the routes of some service vehicles are fixed …

Capacity planning to cope with demand surges in fourth-party logistics networks under chance-constrained service levels

S Jiang, M Huang, Y Liu, Y Zhang, X Wang - Computers & Operations …, 2025 - Elsevier
In this paper, we study a capacity planning problem for a fourth-party logistics network
(4PLN) in the face of event-triggered demand surges. We aim to solve a stochastic …

Lagrange dual bound computation for stochastic service network design

X Jiang, R Bai, J Ren, J Li, G Kendall - European Journal of Operational …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Information on lower bounds plays an important role in the development of exact
and heuristic methods for stochastic service network design (SSND). In this paper, we …

Chance-Constrained Optimization: Applications in Game Theory and Markov Decision Processes

HN Nguyen - 2023 - theses.hal.science
Chance-constrained optimization is a powerful mathematical framework that addresses
decision-making problems in the presence of uncertainty. It provides a systematic approach …