Monica Gentili

Locating Platforms and Scheduling a Fleet of Drones for Emergency Delivery of Perishable Items

  • Alessandro Agnetis
  • Monica Gentili
  • Zabih Ghelichi
  • Pitu Mirchandani
    • Categories Applications - OR and Management Sciences, Applications - Science and Engineering, Integer Programming Tags , ,

    Motivated by issues dealing with delivery of emergency medical products during humanitarian disasters, this paper addresses the general problem of delivering perishable items to remote demands accessible only by helicopters or drones. Each drone operates out of platforms that may be moved when not in use and each drone has a limited delivery range to … Read more

    The Outcome Range Problem in Interval Linear Programming

  • Monica Gentili
  • Mohsen Mohammadi
    • Categories Applications - OR and Management Sciences, Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming Tags , , , ,

    Quantifying extra functions, herein referred to as outcome functions, over optimal solutions of an optimization problem can provide decision makers with additional information on a system. This bears more importance when the optimization problem is subject to uncertainty in input parameters. In this paper, we consider linear programming problems in which input parameters are described … Read more