VNS heuristic for the (r|p)-centroid problem on the plane

In the (r | p)-centroid problem, two players, called leader and follower, open facilities to service clients. We assume that clients are identified with their location on the Euclidean plane, and facilities can be opened anywhere in the plane. The leader opens p facilities. Later on, the follower op...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Daydov, Ivan, Kochetov, Yuri, Carrizosa Priego, Emilio José
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/107141
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/107141
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.endm.2012.10.002
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Local search
facility location
bilevel optimization
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Sumario:In the (r | p)-centroid problem, two players, called leader and follower, open facilities to service clients. We assume that clients are identified with their location on the Euclidean plane, and facilities can be opened anywhere in the plane. The leader opens p facilities. Later on, the follower opens r facilities. Each client patronizes the closest facility. Our goal is to find p facilities for the leader to maximize his market share. For this ΣP2-hard problem we develop the VNS heuristic, based on the exact approach for the follower problem. We apply the (r | Xp−1+1)-centroid subproblem for finding the best neighboring solution according to the swap neighborhood. It is shown that this subproblem is polynomially solvable for fixed r. Computational experiments for the randomly generated test instances show that the VNS heuristic dominates the previous ones.