On the Computational Complexity of Peer-to-Peer Satellite Refueling Strategies

Autor: Panagiotis Tsiotras, Atri Dutta, Sofie Coene, Frits C. R. Spieksma
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: INFOR: Information Systems and Operational Research. 50:88-94
ISSN: 1916-0615
0315-5986
DOI: 10.3138/infor.50.2.088
Popis: We revisit the peer-to-peer on-orbit satellite refueling problem, in which the maneuvering satellites are allowed to interchange their orbital positions. We show that the problem is computationally hard by reducing it to a special case of the three-index assignment problem. On the positive side, we show that the size of instances in practice is such that a state-of-the-art integer programming solver is able to find globally optimal solutions in little computing time.
Databáze: OpenAIRE