Solution methods for a min-max facility location problem with regional customers considering closest Euclidean distances


DOLU HASTÜRK N., HASTÜRK U., TURAL M. K.

COMPUTATIONAL OPTIMIZATION AND APPLICATIONS, cilt.75, sa.2, ss.537-560, 2020 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 75 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2020
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1007/s10589-019-00163-0
  • Dergi Adı: COMPUTATIONAL OPTIMIZATION AND APPLICATIONS
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, ABI/INFORM, Aerospace Database, Applied Science & Technology Source, Business Source Elite, Business Source Premier, Communication Abstracts, Compendex, Computer & Applied Sciences, INSPEC, MathSciNet, Metadex, zbMATH, Civil Engineering Abstracts
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.537-560
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

We study a facility location problem where a single facility serves multiple customers each represented by a (possibly non-convex) region in the plane. The aim of the problem is to locate a single facility in the plane so that the maximum of the closest Euclidean distances between the facility and the customer regions is minimized. Assuming that each customer region is mixed-integer second order cone representable, we firstly give a mixed-integer second order cone programming formulation of the problem. Secondly, we consider a solution method based on the Minkowski sums of sets. Both of these solution methods are extended to the constrained case in which the facility is to be located on a (possibly non-convex) subset of the plane. Finally, these two methods are compared in terms of solution quality and time with extensive computational experiments.