Continuous multifacility ordered median location problems

In this paper we propose a general methodology for solving a broad class of continuous, multifacility location problems, in any dimension and with ℓτ -norms proposing two different methodologies: 1) by a new second order cone mixed integer programming formulation and 2) by formulating a sequence of...

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Autores: Blanco Izquierdo, Víctor, El-Haj Ben-Ali, Safae, Puerto Albandoz, Justo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión enviada para evaluación y publicación
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/44809
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11441/44809
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2015.10.065
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Continuous multifacility location
Ordered median problems
Semidefinite programming
Second order cone programming
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Sumario:In this paper we propose a general methodology for solving a broad class of continuous, multifacility location problems, in any dimension and with ℓτ -norms proposing two different methodologies: 1) by a new second order cone mixed integer programming formulation and 2) by formulating a sequence of semidefinite programs that converges to the solution of the problem; each of these relaxed problems solvable with SDP solvers in polynomial time. We apply dimensionality reductions of the problems by sparsity and symmetry in order to be able to solve larger problems. Continuous multifacility location and Ordered median problems and Semidefinite programming and Moment problem.