• Title of article

    A localbranchingheuristicforthecapacitatedfixed-chargenetworkdesignproblem

  • Author/Authors

    Inmaculada Rodr?guez-Mart?n، نويسنده , , JuanJoséSalazar-Gonz?lez، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    ماهنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2010
  • Pages
    7
  • From page
    575
  • To page
    581
  • Abstract
    We describeinthisarticleanewheuristicapproachforthecapacitatedfixed-chargenetworkdesign problem. Thisisawellknown NP-hard problemthathasbeenextensivelystudied.Weproposetouse local branchingtotackleit.LocalbranchingisanovelmetaheuristictechniquepresentedbyFischettiand Lodi [Localbranching.MathematicalProgrammingSeriesB2003;98:23–47]thatutilizesageneralMIP solver toexploreneighborhoods.Ourimplementationistestedonalargesetofbenchmarkinstances. The resultsshowthatthemethodoutperformsthebestheuristicapproachesfoundintheliterature.
  • Keywords
    Network design , Heuristics , Local branching
  • Journal title
    Computers and Operations Research
  • Serial Year
    2010
  • Journal title
    Computers and Operations Research
  • Record number

    927671