Title
A comparison of p-dispersion heuristics
Abstract
The objective of the p -dispersion problem is to choose p out of n given points, such that the minimum distance between any pair of chosen points is as large as possible. Possible application areas include location theory and multicriteria optimization. The p -dispersion problem is known to be NP-hard. In this paper, we examine 10 heuristic methods for solving this problem, and provide a comparison of them based on several criteria. We report our computational experience with the heuristics on randomly generated planar problems of different sizes. Most of the heuristics generate very good solutions with very little computational effort on a microcomputer. We suggest performing multiple applications of several heuristics to minimize the possibility of finding poor solutions.
Year
DOI
Venue
1994
10.1016/0305-0548(94)90041-8
Computers & OR
Keywords
DocType
Volume
p-dispersion heuristics
Journal
21
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
10
Computers and Operations Research
34
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.89
3
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Erhan Erkut169247.66
Yilmaz Ülküsal2341.89
Oktay Yenicerioğlu3341.89