Dual-based heuristics for a hierarchical covering location problem

نویسندگان

  • Luis Gonzalo Acosta Espejo
  • Roberto D. Galvão
  • Brian Boffey
چکیده

A 2-level hierarchical extension of the maximal covering location problem is considered and an e0ective method for its solution developed. A combined Lagrangean–surrogate (L–S) relaxation is de6ned which reduces to a 0–1 knapsack problem. Tests were carried out using a subgradient-based heuristic incorporating the L–S relaxation, with the resulting knapsack problems being solved both with and without the integrality constraints relaxed. Results were obtained for test problems available in the literature ranging from 55-node to 700-node networks. These were compared, where possible, with exact results obtained using CPLEX. It was found that computing times were reasonable.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Computers & OR

دوره 30  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2003