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Title: | Mixed integer programming based maintenance scheduling for the Hunter Valley coal chain | Contributor(s): | Boland, Natashia (author); Kalinowski, Thomas (author) ; Waterer, Hamish (author); Zheng, Lanbo (author) | Publication Date: | 2013-12 | Early Online Version: | 2012-09-14 | DOI: | 10.1007/s10951-012-0284-y | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/26800 | Abstract: | We consider the scheduling of the annual maintenance for the Hunter Valley Coal Chain. The coal chain is a system comprising load points, railway track and different types of terminal equipment, interacting in a complex way. A variety of maintenance tasks have to be performed on all parts of the infrastructure on a regular basis in order to assure the operation of the system as a whole. The main objective in the planning of these maintenance jobs is to maximize the total annual throughput. Based on a network flow model of the system, we propose a mixed integer programming formulation for this planning task. In order to deal with the resulting large scale model which cannot be solved directly by a general purpose solver, we propose two steps. The number of binary variables is reduced by choosing a representative subset of the variables of the original problem, and a rolling horizon approach enables the approximation of the long term (i.e. annual) problem by a sequence of shorter problems (for instance, monthly). | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Grant Details: | ARC/LP0990739 | Source of Publication: | Journal of Scheduling, 16(6), p. 649-659 | Publisher: | Springer New York LLC | Place of Publication: | United States of America | ISSN: | 1099-1425 1094-6136 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 010303 Optimisation 010206 Operations Research |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 490304 Optimisation 490108 Operations research |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970101 Expanding Knowledge in the Mathematical Sciences | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 280118 Expanding knowledge in the mathematical sciences | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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