A Divide-and-Conquer Approach to Commercial Territory Design

A new heuristic procedure for a commercial territory design problem is introduced in this work. The proposed procedure is based on the divide-and-conquer paradigm and basically consists of a successive dichotomy process on a given large instance of the problem. During this process, a series of integ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: M. Angélica Salazar-Aguilar, J. Luis González-Velarde, Roger Z. Ríos-Mercado
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:México
Institución:Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León
Repositorio:Redalyc-UANL
OAI Identifier:oai:redalyc.org:61524403006
Acceso en línea:https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=61524403006
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Computación
divide and
Territory design
conquer approach
heuristic optimization
integer quadratic programming
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Sumario:A new heuristic procedure for a commercial territory design problem is introduced in this work. The proposed procedure is based on the divide-and-conquer paradigm and basically consists of a successive dichotomy process on a given large instance of the problem. During this process, a series of integer quadratic subproblems is solved. The obtained computational results have shown that the proposed heuristic is an attractive technique for obtaining locally optimal solutions for large instances which are intractable by using exact optimization methods.