An agent-based framework for solving an equity location problem

Authors:
Maria Barbati;Giuseppe Bruno;Andrea Genovese
Affiliations:
University of Naples Federico II, Department of Business and Management Engineering, Naples Italy;University of Naples Federico II, Department of Business and Management Engineering, Naples Italy;University of Sheffield, Management School, Sheffield, UK
Venue:
KES-AMSTA'11 Proceedings of the 5th KES international conference on Agent and multi-agent systems: technologies and applications
Year:
2011

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Abstract

Agent-Based Models have been recently proposed for solving optimization problems as an alternative to classical optimization methodologies or in combination with them; in particular this approach is useful when the considered problem is defined on a domain that is, to some extent, distributed, complex and heterogeneous. In this paper, we present an adaptation of a general Agent-Based framework for modeling and solving a location problem where the objective function is a measure of "equity" from the demand points to the set of facilities (the Gini Coefficient). We present some computational results confirming the suitability and the effectiveness of the proposed approach.