| Issue |
4open
Volume 2, 2019
Mathematical Models
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| Article Number | 15 | |
| Number of page(s) | 10 | |
| Section | Mathematics - Applied Mathematics | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/fopen/2019008 | |
| Published online | 16 May 2019 | |
Research Article
Minimum total distance clustering and balanced distance clustering in northern Thailand's corn crop residue management system
1
Centre of Excellence in Mathematics, CHE, Bangkok
10400, Thailand
2
Center of Excellence in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai
50200, Thailand
* Corresponding author: chulin.l@cmu.ac.th
Received:
25
December
2018
Accepted:
19
March
2019
The authors study the corn crop residue management system for 16 provinces in northern Thailand encompassing 127 agricultural cooperatives (co-ops), 974 corn fields and 274 customers. To solve the system's problems, we find clusters where co-ops will pick up crop residues from corn fields, process them into biomass fuel and sell the fuel to customers. Each cluster consists of a co-op, a set of corn fields and a set of customers, the latter two being on separate routes from the co-op. To minimize the system's transportation cost and balance transportation cost between clusters, we propose a mathematical model with two objective functions, construct two heuristics, and apply the two heuristics to solve the problem.
Key words: Agricultural residue management system / Northern Thailand / Heuristic / Multiple depot vehicle routing problem
© S. Phonin & C. Likasiri, Published by EDP Sciences, 2019
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