Article ID: | iaor19932401 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 44 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 175 |
End Page Number: | 184 |
Publication Date: | Feb 1993 |
Journal: | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
Authors: | Evans J.R., Tsubakitani S. |
Keywords: | storage |
The authors investigate the application of Benders’ partitioning to a mixed integer programming formulation of the segregated storage problem. The dual subproblem reduces to an efficiently-solvable network flow problem. This approach is compared empirically to Neebe’s multiplier adjustment procedure. Benders’ procedure is shown to be computationally effective for an important class of practical applications having high demand-to-capacity ratios and fewer products than compartments.