Bijoy Kumar Mandal

Dr. Bijoy Kumar Mandal


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Academic Career Length

5Years (2022-Present)

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8 January 2022 in Symmetry
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Saibal MajumderSaibal Majumder
Saibal Majumder
PBPartha Sarathi Barma
Partha Sarathi Barma
ABArindam Biswas
Arindam Biswas
PBPradip Banerjee
Pradip Banerjee
BMBijoy Kumar Mandal
Bijoy Kumar Mandal
PZPaweł Ziemba
Paweł Ziemba
Minimum spanning tree problem (MSTP) has allured many researchers and practitioners due to its varied range of applications in real world scenarios. Modelling these applications involves the incorporation of indeterminate phenomena based on their subjective estimations. Such phenomena can be represented rationally using uncertainty theory. Being a more realistic variant of MSTP, in this article, based on the principles of the uncertainty theory, we have studied a multi-objective minimum spanning tree problem (MMSTP) with indeterminate problem parameters. Subsequently, two uncertain programming models of the proposed uncertain multi-objective minimum spanning tree problem (UMMSTP) are developed and their corresponding crisp equivalence models are investigated, and eventually solved using a classical multi-objective solution technique, the epsilon-constraint method. Additionally, two multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs), non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm II (NSGAII) and duplicate elimination non-dominated sorting evolutionary algorithm (DENSEA) are also employed as solution methodologies. With the help of the proposed UMMSTP models, the practical problem of optimizing the distribution of petroleum products was solved, consisting in the search for symmetry (balance) between the transportation cost and the transportation time. Thereafter, the performance of the MOEAs is analyzed on five randomly developed instances of the proposed problem.