Inventors:
Amr S. El-Bakry - Bedminster NJ, US
Jin-Hwa Song - Whitehouse Station NJ, US
Vikas Goel - Houston TX, US
Kevin C. Furman - Houston TX, US
Federico D. Carvallo - Sugar Land TX, US
Sangbum Lee - Fairfax VA, US
James Dreher - Houston TX, US
Aristides Miroyannis - Houston TX, US
Richard Perry Connell - Houston TX, US
International Classification:
G06Q 10/00
Abstract:
The present invention is a computational system to generate feasible marine transportation schedules given a proposed bulk material supply chain. The decision support tool will fulfill the objectives and scope defined above. The technology employed will require (a) the use of mathematical programming modeling techniques (mixed integer linear programming) to mathematically formulate the business problem, and (b) advanced proprietary solution methods to produce solutions satisfying all constraints of the mathematical model while optimizing an objective function. The decision support tool has the following capabilities: Read input data, Generate feasible bulk material ship Schedule, Evaluate bulk material ship Schedule with User-defined Objective Function, Allow Case comparison, Graphical user interface (GUI) for specifying input data and displaying results.
