Modelling the problem of the food distribution by the Portuguese food banks

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Autor(a) principal: Martins, I.
Data de Publicação: 2011
Outros Autores: Guedes, T., Rama, P., Ramos, J., Tchemisova, T.
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10773/6208
Resumo: A food bank is a non-pro t, social solidarity organization that typically distributes the donated food among a wide variety of local non-pro t, social solidarity institutions which in turn feed the lowincome people. The problem presented by the Portuguese Federation of Food Banks is to determine, for a speci c food bank, the quantities of the donated products that must be assigned to each local social solidarity institution in order to satisfy the needs of the supported people as much as possible, without favouring any institution. We propose a linear programming model followed by a rounding heuristic to obtain a solution to the problem described. Computational results are reported.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Modelling the problem of the food distribution by the Portuguese food banks
title Modelling the problem of the food distribution by the Portuguese food banks
spellingShingle Modelling the problem of the food distribution by the Portuguese food banks
Martins, I.
Linear programming
Heuristics
Integer programming
Portugal
Modelling
Food distribution
Food banks
Donated food
title_short Modelling the problem of the food distribution by the Portuguese food banks
title_full Modelling the problem of the food distribution by the Portuguese food banks
title_fullStr Modelling the problem of the food distribution by the Portuguese food banks
title_full_unstemmed Modelling the problem of the food distribution by the Portuguese food banks
title_sort Modelling the problem of the food distribution by the Portuguese food banks
author Martins, I.
author_facet Martins, I.
Guedes, T.
Rama, P.
Ramos, J.
Tchemisova, T.
author_role author
author2 Guedes, T.
Rama, P.
Ramos, J.
Tchemisova, T.
author2_role author
author
author
author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Martins, I.
Guedes, T.
Rama, P.
Ramos, J.
Tchemisova, T.
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Linear programming
Heuristics
Integer programming
Portugal
Modelling
Food distribution
Food banks
Donated food
topic Linear programming
Heuristics
Integer programming
Portugal
Modelling
Food distribution
Food banks
Donated food
description A food bank is a non-pro t, social solidarity organization that typically distributes the donated food among a wide variety of local non-pro t, social solidarity institutions which in turn feed the lowincome people. The problem presented by the Portuguese Federation of Food Banks is to determine, for a speci c food bank, the quantities of the donated products that must be assigned to each local social solidarity institution in order to satisfy the needs of the supported people as much as possible, without favouring any institution. We propose a linear programming model followed by a rounding heuristic to obtain a solution to the problem described. Computational results are reported.
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