Delay-Robust Event Scheduling

Alberto Caprara, Laura Galli (), Sebastian Stiller () and Paolo Toth ()
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Alberto Caprara: Formerly at Dipartimento Ingegneria dell'Energia Elettrica e dell'Informazione “Guglielmo Marconi”, Università di Bologna, 40136 Bologna, Italy
Laura Galli: Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Pisa, 56127 Pisa, Italy
Sebastian Stiller: Institut für Mathematik, Technische Universität Berlin, 136 10623 Berlin, Germany
Paolo Toth: Dipartimento Ingegneria dell'Energia Elettrica e dell'Informazione “Guglielmo Marconi”, Università di Bologna, 40136 Bologna, Italy

Operations Research, 2014, vol. 62, issue 2, 274-283

Abstract: Robust optimisation is a well-established concept to deal with uncertainty. In particular, recovery-robust models are suitable for real-world contexts, where a certain amount of recovery---although limited---is often available. In this paper we describe a general framework to optimise event-based problems against delay propagation . We also present a real-world application to train platforming in the Italian railways in order to show the practical effectiveness of our framework.

Keywords: robust optimization; recovery; delay propagation; railway planning; event scheduling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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