• Title of article

    Uncapacitated singleandmultipleallocation p-hub centerproblems

  • Author/Authors

    Andreas T. Ernst، نويسنده , , HorstHamacherb، نويسنده , , HouyuanJiangc، نويسنده , , MohanKrishnamoorthy، نويسنده , , GerhardWoegingerd، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    ماهنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2009
  • Pages
    12
  • From page
    2230
  • To page
    2241
  • Abstract
    The hubmedianproblemistolocatehubfacilitiesinanetworkandtoallocatenon-hubnodestohub nodes suchthatthetotaltransportationcostisminimized.Inthehubcenterproblem,themainobjective is oneofminimizingthemaximumdistance/costbetweenorigindestinationpairs.Inthispaper,westudy uncapacitated hubcenterproblemswitheithersingleormultipleallocation.Bothproblemsareproved to beNP-hard.Weevenshowthattheproblemoffindinganoptimalsingleallocationwithrespecttoa given setofhubsisalreadyNP-hard.Wepresentintegerprogrammingformulationsforbothproblems and proposeabranch-and-boundapproachforsolvingthemultipleallocationcase.Numericalresultsare reported whichshowthatthenewformulationsaresuperiortopreviousones.
  • Keywords
    Facility planning and design , Hub center , NP-hard , Heuristic
  • Journal title
    Computers and Operations Research
  • Serial Year
    2009
  • Journal title
    Computers and Operations Research
  • Record number

    927608