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Fuzzy stochastic linear programming-based approach for multiple departures single destination multiple travelling salesman problem

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  • Seyed Gholamreza Jalali Naini
  • Mohammad Mahdi Paydar
  • Javid Jouzdani
  • Mohammad Fathian

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The multiple departures single destination multiple travelling salesmen problem (MDmTSP) is a problem in which two or more salesmen start from any node of departure and finish their tour by reaching a single specific destination node. In many real-life problems, the decision should be made according to information which is both possibilistically imprecise and probabilistically uncertain. Although consistency indexes provide a union nexus between possibilistic and probabilistic representation of uncertainty, there are no reliable transformations between them. A means to this end is fuzzy stochastic linear programming. In this paper, a realistic environment for MDmTSP with fuzzy stochastic distance between nodes is investigated. To justify the proposed approach and to illustrate its efficiency in real-life problems, a case of employees' bus transport routing problem (EBTRP) is presented.

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  • Seyed Gholamreza Jalali Naini & Mohammad Mahdi Paydar & Javid Jouzdani & Mohammad Fathian, 2013. "Fuzzy stochastic linear programming-based approach for multiple departures single destination multiple travelling salesman problem," International Journal of Operational Research, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 17(4), pages 417-435.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijores:v:17:y:2013:i:4:p:417-435
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