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The Stochastic Team Orienteering Problem

Aug 2026 · 0 citations · 25 references
Mathematics

Abstract

This paper analyses the Stochastic Team Orienteering Problem (STOP), a stochastic variant of the Team Orienteering Problem (TOP). In the STOP, travel times are represented by random variables. The objective is to determine a set of routes that maximises the expected collected profit. We model the problem as a two-stage stochastic integer program and propose an exact solution method based on the Integer L-shaped method. We also consider a set of non-linear chance constraints to restrict the search to highly reliable routes. In the first-stage, a set of routes is selected, while in the second-stage the recourse evaluates the expected profit of the selected routes. We present a new set of optimality cuts and strengthen the formulation by considering valid inequalities and constraints liftings. Computational results provide a comprehensive analysis of the algorithm using the standard TOP benchmark dataset from the literature.

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