Title
Harvest planning in the Brazilian sugar cane industry via mixed integer programming.
Abstract
•We model tactical and operational planning as a mixed integer programming model.•We propose new valid inequalities to reduce the integrality gap.•We propose heuristic pre-processing techniques to speed-up the resolution time.•We solve the problem instances in short cpu times to optimality gaps below 5%.•The solutions suggested hold a potential to improve the total profit by 2.5%.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1016/j.ejor.2013.04.011
European Journal of Operational Research
Keywords
Field
DocType
OR in agriculture,Sugar cane harvesting,Mixed integer programming,Valid inequalities
Operational planning,Mathematical optimization,Heuristic,Operations research,Integer programming,Operations management,Sugar cane,Mathematics,Speedup,Tactical planning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
230
2
0377-2217
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
9
0.71
6
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sanjay Dominik Jena1404.03
Marcus Poggi21199.50