DINAS Dynamic Interactive Network Analysis System

Abstract

DINAS is a scientific transferable software tool which enables the solution of various multiobjective transshipment problems with facility locations. For a given number of fixed facilities and customers and for a number of potential facilities to be optionally located, DINAS provides the user with a distribution pattern of a homogeneous product under a multicriteria optimality requirement. While working in an interactive mode, the user gets optimal locations of the potential facilities and a system of optimal flows of the product between nodes of the transportation network. With DINAS one can analyse and solve such problems as:

• the transportation problem with new supply and/or demand points location

• the problem of warehouses location

• the problem of stores location for the agricultural production

• the problem of service centers location and districts reorganization

and many other real-life distribution-location problems.