Global Meta-Hybrids for Large-Scale Combinatorial Optimization
Large-scale combinatorial optimization models may be used to represent problems of designing supply chain networks that yield desired service levels at minimum cost. Such problems are quite challenging because they are combinatorially explosive - some of these optimization models have millions of variables and millions of constraints, and hence are intractable with respect to conventional approaches such as branch-and-cut and constraint programming.
The goal of this project is to develop global meta-hybrid approaches (combining exact and heuristic methods within a partitioning framework) and their corresponding software tools for the efficient solution of large-scale supply chain optimization applications and other massive combinatorial optimization problems.
A powerpoint presentation of recent results was made at the 2002 NSF grantees conference in Puerto Rico. PI's:
Prof. Leyuan Shi
Department of Industrial Engineering
Prof. Robert R. Meyer
Computer Sciences Department