Schedule Design for Liner Shipping Based on Wave Optimization

摘要

This paper focuses on the schedule design problem for liner shipping to hedge against uncertainties. As a complement of Robust Optimization, a new optimization method - Wave Optimization (WO) is proposed, which is more suitable for socioeconomic systems. Then a mixed-integer nonlinear programming model based on WO is presented to solve the vessel schedule design problem. A real-life case study is investigated and proves that the proposed model could be solved effectively and efficiently for the realistic scale problem.