A Double-Layer Combination Algorithm for Real-Time Information-Sharing Network Design Problem

Abstract

The accumulation of real-time data has attracted the attention of various industries because valuable information can be extracted from the effective model and method design. This paper designs a low-carbon model and focuses on the real-time information-sharing network in order to get sustainable strategies promptly and exactly. The design problem is concerned with determining optimal integration strategies on a series of multilocation, multipath, and multiwarehouse freight provided by an information-sharing network to find an effective balance between the total costs and carbon emission. Firstly, the biobjective information-sharing network model is established to describe real-time problem with total cost and carbon emission factor. Secondly, a double-layer bacterial foraging algorithm is divided into inner and outer layers to solve the model, in which the inner section solves the transportation and inventory problems, and the outer section solves the supplier location problem. The double-layer bacterial foraging algorithm realizes the optimization of multisource e-commerce information-sharing model through nesting inside and outside layers. Finally, double-layer bacterial foraging algorithm can be confirmed to get the global optimal solution rapidly based on test data and the e-business case study of Jingdong, China.