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Effective optimization: Utilization and why you should avoid cost-functions

06-14-2016
In this blog I want to cover two frequent questions: I want to have only FORs with more than x% utilization I want to distribute the freight between two FORs in a specific way I want to discuss this scope from different views. We will start wit...

Effective optimization: Proposal & Optimizer – the (un)-similar brothers

02-26-2015
In this blog we want to have a look into the proposal and what’s it makes different from the „usual“ optimizer. Let’s start why we use the optimizer:The goal of the optimizer is to find the best plan in term of costs in a given run-time, to transport...

Effective Optimization: Incremental planning

10-14-2014
The VSR optimizer is mainly driven by Freight Units. As long as there are not planned Freight Units it is searching for capacity to transport these Freight Units. As result the optimizer is creating Freight Orders or Bookings to describe how and wh...

Effective optimization: Different tasks, different optimizers

06-12-2014
During the last years SUV’s became very popular in Europe. SUV stands for “Sport Utility Vehicle”. It is a kind of cars. Usually they are large, have a strong motor and look like they could drive off-road. You could get the impression this kind of ...

Effective optimization: Enhancement - create your own world for optimization

05-21-2014
As you may know we use Meta-Heuristic for our VSR-optimization. We call it evolutionary local search. One important part in such an approach are the local steps to check every possibility in a neighborhood and some random steps to get new aspects i...
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