Title
The equitable location problem on the plane
Abstract
This paper considers the problem of locating M facilities on the unit square so as to minimize the maximal demand faced by each facility subject to closest assignments and coverage constraints. Focusing on uniform demand over the unit square, we develop upper and lower bounds on feasibility of the problem for a given number of facilities and coverage radius. Based on these bounds and numerical experiments we suggest a heuristic to solve the problem. Our computational results show that the heuristic is very efficient, as the average gap between its solutions and the lower bound is 4.34%.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1016/j.ejor.2006.10.023
European Journal of Operational Research
Keywords
Field
DocType
Location,Heuristics,Facilities planning and design
Heuristic,Mathematical optimization,Upper and lower bounds,Heuristics,Unit square,Numerical analysis,1-center problem,Operations management,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
183
2
0377-2217
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
28
2.03
3
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Opher Baron114514.64
O. Berman21604231.36
Dmitry Krass348382.08
Qian Wang4282.03