Fast heuristics for large scale covering-location problems

  • Authors:
  • Luce Brotcorne;Gilbert Laporte;Frédéric Semet

  • Affiliations:
  • LAMIH-ROI, Université de Valenciennes, Le Mont Houy, Valenciennes Cedex 9, France;École des Hautes études Commerciales, 3000 Chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Montréal, Canada;LAMIH-ROI, Université de Valenciennes, Le Mont Houy, Valenciennes Cedex 9, France and GRIS, Département d'administration de la santé, Université de Montréal, Case postale ...

  • Venue:
  • Computers and Operations Research - Location analysis
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We propose fast heuristics for large-scale covering-location problems in which the set of demand points is discrete and the set of potential location sites is continuous. These heuristics are compared on a set of 152 real-life instances arising in cytological screening.