A fuzzy programming approach for dynamic virtual hub location problem

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• 作者：Farzin Taghipourian^a ; Iraj Mahdavi^a ; ^{irajarash@rediffmail.com} ; Nezam Mahdavi-Amiri^b ; Ahmad Makui^c
• 关键词：Hub and spoke system ; Dynamic virtual hub location ; Fuzzy integer linear programming
• 刊名：Applied Mathematical Modelling
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：6_0307904x
• 类别：cp
• 出版时间：July, 2012
• 卷：36
• 期：7
• 页码：3257-3270
• 文件大小：595 K

摘要

Hub location problem has been used in transportation network to exploit economies of scale. For example, a controversial issue in the planning of air transportation networks is inclement weather or emergency conditions. In this situation, hub facilities would not be able to provide a good service to their spoke nodes temporarily. Thus, some other kinds of predetermined underutilized facilities in the network are used as virtual hubs to host some or all connections of original hubs to recover the incurred incapacitation and increase network flexibility and demand flow. In such an unexpected situation, it is not unreasonable to expect that some information be imprecise or vague. To deal with this issue, fuzzy concept is used to pose a more realistic problem. Here, we present a fuzzy integer liner programming approach to propose a dynamic virtual hub location problem with the aim of minimizing transportation cost in the network. We examine the effectiveness of our model using the well-known CAB data set.