A computational study for the p-median Problem

Autor: Agnès Plateau, Sourour Elloumi
Přispěvatelé: Centre d'études et de recherche en informatique et communications (CEDRIC), Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique pour l'Industrie et l'Entreprise (ENSIIE)-Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers [CNAM] (CNAM)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2010
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Zdroj: ISCO 2010-International Symposium on Combinatorial Optimization
ISCO10. International Symposium on Combinatorial Optimization
ISCO10. International Symposium on Combinatorial Optimization, Mar 2010, Hammamet, Tunisia. pp.455-462, ⟨10.1016/j.endm.2010.05.058⟩
DOI: 10.1016/j.endm.2010.05.058⟩
Popis: Given a set of clients and a set of potential sites for facilities, the p -median problem consists of opening a set of p sites and assigning each client to the closest open facility to it. In [Elloumi, S., A tighter formulation of the p-median problem , J. Comb. Optim., 19 (2004), 69–83], a new formulation of this problem was proposed that takes benefit from identical values in the distance matrix. This formulation, when directly used in a mixed integer linear programming software, was proved to perform better than other known formulations, on a large number of instances. Here, we propose to improve the performances of the new formulation by taking benefit from its structure in the solution of its LP-relaxation. Rows and columns are gradually added to the linear program until a condition on the optimal values of the variables is reached. A computational comparison is carried out on many classes of instances.
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