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Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing program

US12340339B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMay 6, 2022
Grant dateJun 24, 2025
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Expiry dateOct 14, 2042

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  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY02T10/40
  • WIPO fieldIT methods for management
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An apparatus includes a processor to generate routes for delivering packages in a vehicle routing problem, obtain a first optimum solution of the vehicle routing problem with respect to the routes, determine whether a difference between an objective function value of the first optimum solution and an objective function value of a second optimum solution is greater than or equal to a first threshold value, the second optimum solution being obtained for a linear relaxation problem of the vehicle routing problem, and remove routes for which a variable indicative of a corresponding route is less than or equal to a second threshold value in the second optimum solution, upon finding that the difference is greater than or equal to the first threshold value, wherein a processor generates new routes for delivering packages other than packages that are to be delivered by one or more routes which are left remaining.

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