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Optimal refueling sequence for a mixed fleet with limited refuelings

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  • Avraham A. Melkman
  • Helman I. Stern
  • Avraham Mehrez

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Consider a fleet of vehicles comprised of K1 identical tankers and K2 identical nontankers (small aircraft). Tankers are capable of refueling other tankers as well as nontankers. The problem is to find that refueling sequence of the tankers that maximizes the range simultaneously attainable by all K2 nontankers. A recent paper established that the “unit refueling sequence,” comprised of one tanker refueling at each of K1 refueling operations, is optimal. The same paper also proffered the following conjecture for the case that the number of refueling operations is constrained to be less than the number of tankers: A nonincreasing refueling sequence is optimal. This article proves the conjecture.

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  • Avraham A. Melkman & Helman I. Stern & Avraham Mehrez, 1986. "Optimal refueling sequence for a mixed fleet with limited refuelings," Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 33(4), pages 759-762, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:navlog:v:33:y:1986:i:4:p:759-762
    DOI: 10.1002/nav.3800330418
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    1. George Steiner & Dan Wang & Yufei Yuan, 1992. "Primal dual algorithms for the vehicle refueling problem," Naval Research Logistics (NRL), John Wiley & Sons, vol. 39(7), pages 905-918, December.

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