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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 01, 2009
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);
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);
ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company, Annandale, NJ (US);
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.