Journal
TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART E-LOGISTICS AND TRANSPORTATION REVIEW
Volume 88, Issue -, Pages 110-128Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2016.01.009
Keywords
Post-harvest loss; Robust optimization; Grain supply chain; Market equilibrium; Bottleneck model
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- ADM Institute for the Prevention of Post-Harvest Loss at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- U.S. National Science Foundation [CMMI-1234085]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [71372134]
- Directorate For Engineering
- Div Of Civil, Mechanical, & Manufact Inn [1234085] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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This paper presents a bi-level robust optimization model, where a food company maximizes its profit and minimizes post-harvest loss by optimally deploying grain processing/storage facilities and determining grain purchase price, while a group of spatially distributed non-cooperative farmers determine harvest time, shipment, storage, and market decisions under yield uncertainty and market equilibrium. The non-cooperative behavior of the food company and the farmers is represented by a bi-level Stackelberg leader follower's game model with mixed-integer decision variables. The proposed model and solution approach are applied to case studies for Illinois and Brazil. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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