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Title: Solving the p-center problem with tabu search and variable neighborhood search
Authors: Mladenović, N
Labbe, M
Hansen, P
Keywords: Location;p-center;Heuristics;Tabu search;Variable neighborhood search
Issue Date: 2003
Publisher: Wiley Periodicals
Citation: NetworksS, 42(1): 48 - 64, Aug 2003
Abstract: The p-Center problem consists of locating p facilities and assigning clients to them in order to minimize the maximum distance between a client and the facility to which he or she is allocated. In this paper, we present a basic Variable Neighborhood Search and two Tabu Search heuristics for the p-Center problem without the triangle inequality. Both proposed methods use the 1-interchange (or vertex substitution) neighborhood structure. We show how this neighborhood can be used even more efficiently than for solving the p-Median problem. Multistart 1-interchange, Variable Neighborhood Search, Tabu Search, and a few early heuristics are compared on small-and large-scale test problems from the literature. (C) 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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URI: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/net.10081/abstract
http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/6675
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/net.10081
ISSN: 0028-3045
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