A heuristic method for large-scale multi-facility location problems

  • Authors:
  • Yuri Levin;Adi Ben-Israel

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Business, Queens University, Kingston, Ont., Canada KTL 3N6;Rutgers Center for Operations Research (RUTCOR), Rutgers University, 640 Bartholomew Road, Piscataway, NJ

  • Venue:
  • Computers and Operations Research
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

A heuristic method for solving large-scale multi-facility location problems is presented. The method is analogous to Cooper's method (SIAM Rev. 6 (1964) 37), using the authors' single facility location method (Comput. Optim. Appl. 21 (2002) 213) as a parallel subroutine, and reassigning customers to facilities using the heuristic of nearest center reclassification. Numerical results are reported.