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
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
Journal title :
Computers and Operations Research
