Location & Routing in Logistics

Fall 2004
Wuhan University of Technology

CSyllabus (tentative)


Week Session# Date Topic

7

1
 11-Oct Introduction

7

2
 13-Oct Concepts & terminology of graphs & networks

8

3
 18-Oct Transportation, shortest route, & network flow models

8

4
 20-Oct Assignment problems (linear, general, & quadratic)

9

5
 25-Oct Covering problems

9

6
 27-Oct Lagrangian relaxation

10

7
 1-Nov Mixed-integer programming models

10

8
 3-Nov Mixed-integer programming models

11

9
 8-Nov Modeling languages

11

10
 10-Nov Modeling languages

12

11
 15-Nov Location in the plane (Weber's problem)

12

12
 17-Nov Median location problems

13

13
 22-Nov Center location problems

13

14
 24-Nov Simple & capacitated plant location

14

15
 29-Nov Benders' decomposition

14

16
 1-Dec Heuristic algorithms (genetic, simulated annealing, etc.)

15

17
 6-Dec Location of noxious facilities

15

18
 8-Dec Routing: traveling salesman

16

19
 13-Dec Routing: Chinese postman

16

20
 15-Dec Vehicle routing problems

17

21
 20-Dec Vehicle routing problems

17

22
 22-Dec Integrated location/routing models

18

23
 27-Dec Integrated location/routing models

18

24
 29-Dec Review & discussion

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