Generating Good Starting Solutions for the p-median Problem in the Plane

Brimberg, Jack and Drezner, Zvi and Mladenovic, Nenad and Salhi, Said (2012) Generating Good Starting Solutions for the p-median Problem in the Plane. Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics, 39 . pp. 225-232. ISSN 1571-0653. (doi:10.1016/j.endm.2012.10.030) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

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Abstract

In this paper we examine a new procedure for generating starting solutions for the continuous p-median problem in the plane. Preliminary results indicate that local optima of much better quality are obtained using this method. The next step in our study will be to determine if these starting solutions enhance the performance of existing heuristics that are based on variable neighborhood search.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled keywords:	location, heuristic, plane, optimization
Subjects:	H Social Sciences H Social Sciences > HA Statistics > HA33 Management Science
Divisions:	Faculties > Social Sciences > Kent Business School Faculties > Social Sciences > Kent Business School > Management Science
Depositing User:	Said Salhi
Date Deposited:	26 Oct 2012 14:48
Last Modified:	26 Sep 2014 15:27
Resource URI:	https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/31954 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)