Title
Benders decomposition for the uncapacitated multiple allocation hub location problem
Abstract
In telecommunication and transportation systems, the uncapacitated multiple allocation hub location problem (UMAHLP) arises when we must flow commodities or information between several origin-destination pairs. Instead of establishing a direct node to node connection from an origin to its destination, the flows are concentrated with others at facilities called hubs. These flows are transported on links established between hubs, being then splitted and delivered to its final destination. Systems with this sort of topology are named hub-and-spoke (HS) systems or hub-and-spoke networks. They are designed to exploit the scale economies attainable through the shared use of high capacity links between hubs. Therefore, the problem is to find the least expensive HS network, selecting hubs and assigning traffic to them, given the demands between each origin-destination pair and the respective transportation costs. In the present paper, we present efficient Benders decomposition algorithms based on a well known formulation to tackle the UMAHLP. We have been able to solve some large instances, considered 'out of reach' of other exact methods in reasonable time.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1016/j.cor.2006.07.002
Computers & OR
Keywords
DocType
Volume
direct node,hub-and-spoke network,respective transportation cost,transportation system,Large-scale optimization,assigning traffic,location problem,benders decomposition,Benders decomposition,Hub-and-spoke networks,uncapacitated multiple allocation hub,expensive HS network,origin-destination pair,present paper,final destination
Journal
35
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
Computers and Operations Research
13
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.81
6
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
R. S. de Camargo1211.60
G. Miranda, Jr.2130.81
H. P. Luna3557.39