On location-allocation problems for dimensional facilities

This paper deals with a bilevel approach of the location-allocation problem with dimensional facilities. We present a general model that allows us to consider very general shapes of domains for the dimensional facilities and we prove the existence of optimal solutions under mild, natural assumptions...

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Autores: Mallozzi, Lina, Puerto Albandoz, Justo, Rodríguez Madrena, Moisés
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión enviada para evaluación y publicación
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/86098
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/86098
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10957-018-01470-y
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Bilevel optimization
Dimensional facilities
Optimal transport mass
Mixed-integer programming
Heuristics
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Sumario:This paper deals with a bilevel approach of the location-allocation problem with dimensional facilities. We present a general model that allows us to consider very general shapes of domains for the dimensional facilities and we prove the existence of optimal solutions under mild, natural assumptions. To achieve these results we borrow tools from optimal transport mass theory that allow us to give explicit solution structure of the considered lower level problem. We also provide a discretization approach that can approximate, up to any degree of accuracy, the optimal solution of the original problem. This discrete approximation can be optimally solved via a mixedinteger linear program. To address very large instance sizes we also provide a GRASP heuristic that performs rather well according to our experimental results. The paper also reports some experiments run on test data.