• Title of article

    A multi-dimensionalshootingalgorithmforthetwo-facility location–allocationproblemwithdensedemand

  • Author/Authors

    Alper Murat، نويسنده , , VedatVerter، نويسنده , , GilbertLaporte، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    ماهنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2011
  • Pages
    14
  • From page
    450
  • To page
    463
  • Abstract
    We developanefficientallocation-basedsolutionframeworkforaclassoftwo-facilitylocation– allocationproblemswithdensedemanddata.Byformulatingtheproblemasamulti-dimensional boundaryvalueproblem,weshowthatpreviousresultsforthediscretedemandcasecanbeextended to problemswithhighlydensedemanddata.Further,thisapproachcanbegeneralizedtonon-convex allocationdecisions.ThisformulationisillustratedfortheEuclideanmetriccasebyrepresentingthe affine bisectorwithtwopoints.Aspecializedmulti-dimensionalshootingalgorithmispresentedand illustratedonanexample.Comparisonswithtwoalternativemethodsthroughacomputationalstudy confirm theefficiencyoftheproposedmethodology.
  • Keywords
    Location–allocation problem , Shooting algorithm , Boundary value problem , Continuous modeling
  • Journal title
    Computers and Operations Research
  • Serial Year
    2011
  • Journal title
    Computers and Operations Research
  • Record number

    927870