Solving the p-Median Problem with a Semi-Lagrangian Relaxation

  • Authors:
  • C. Beltran;C. Tadonki;J. Ph. Vial

  • Affiliations:
  • Logilab, HEC, University of Geneva, Switzerland;Centre Universitaire Informatique, University of Geneva, Switzerland;Logilab, HEC, University of Geneva, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • Computational Optimization and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Lagrangian relaxation is commonly used in combinatorial optimization to generate lower bounds for a minimization problem. We study a modified Lagrangian relaxation which generates an optimal integer solution. We call it semi-Lagrangian relaxation and illustrate its practical value by solving large-scale instances of the p-median problem.