Title
Multiobjective bilevel optimization for production-distribution planning problems using hybrid genetic algorithm
Abstract
Currently, the production-distribution planning problems are usually modeled as single-objective bilevel programming problems. However, many real world production-distribution planning problems involve several objectives simultaneously for decision makers at two different levels when the production and the distribution processes are considered. In this paper, a multiobjective bilevel production-distribution planning model with equilibrium between supply and demand is set up, in which the distribution company is the leader who controls the distributing process with the aims to minimize its overall cost, and the manufacturer is the follower who controls the production process with the aims to minimize its overall cost and storage cost. So in the proposed model, the leader has one objective and the follower has two objectives. To solve the model efficaciously, the lower level problem follower's problem is transformed into an equivalent single-objective programming problem by a weighted aggregation method. As a result, the multiobjective bilevel optimization problem is transformed into a single-objective bilevel optimization problem. To solve the transformed problem efficiently, a uniform design scheme is applied to generate some representative weight vectors and initial population. Thereafter, a uniform design based crossover and exponential mutation are designed, and a local search scheme is applied. Based on all these, a hybrid genetic algorithm is proposed. Finally, two real word problems are solved successfully by the proposed algorithm, and the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed algorithm are also tested by other test problems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.3233/ICA-130452
Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering
Keywords
Field
DocType
equivalent single-objective programming problem,multiobjective bilevel optimization,real word problem,lower level problem follower,overall cost,multiobjective bilevel optimization problem,hybrid genetic algorithm,single-objective bilevel programming problem,production-distribution planning problem,proposed algorithm,test problem,single-objective bilevel optimization problem
Population,Mathematical optimization,Crossover,Exponential function,Bilevel optimization,Word problem (mathematics education),Scheduling (production processes),Local search (optimization),Genetic algorithm,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
21
1
1069-2509
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
35
0.96
14
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Li-Ping Jia1547.81
Yuping Wang2106091.93
Lei Fan3485.70