Operations Research Transactions ›› 2026, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (3): 204-218.doi: 10.15960/j.cnki.issn.1007-6093.2026.03.012

Special Issue: 运筹与管理前沿:模型、算法及其应用专辑

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Two-stage drone facility location and scheduling based on robust satisficing

GUO Yanjing1, GAO Pan2†, WU Zhongming3   

  1. 1. School of Mathematics and Statistics, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, Fujian, China;
    2. School of Management and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, Jiangsu, China;
    3. School of Management Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, Jiangsu, China
  • Received:2025-12-11 Published:2026-09-12

Abstract: This paper focuses on the drone facility location and scheduling problem under uncertain demand, and proposes a two-stage location-scheduling model based on robust satisficing. The first-stage decisions cover facility siting, drone allocation, and emergency supply stockpiling. The second-stage operations implement supply dispatching per actual demand. The model employs the Wasserstein distance to characterize demand distribution uncertainty, reconstructs the problem into a solvable adaptive robust optimization model via duality theory and affine decision rules, and solves it using a solver. Numerical results demonstrate that, compared with stochastic programming and distributionally robust optimization models, the proposed model offers stronger robustness in facility location and inventory pre-positioning, and effectively cuts post-disaster emergency transportation costs.

Key words: drone transportation, facility location, scheduling, distributionally robust optimization, robust satisficing

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