A facility neighborhood search heuristic for capacitated facility location with single-source constraints and flexible demand Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We consider a generalization of the well-known capacitated facility location problem with single source constraints in which customer demand contains a flexible dimension. This work focuses on providing fast and practically implementable optimization-based heuristic solution methods for very large scale problem instances. We offer a unique approach that utilizes a high-quality efficient heuristic within a neighborhood search to address the combined assignment and fixed-charge structure of the underlying optimization problem. We also study the potential benefits of combining our approach with a so-called very large-scale neighborhood search (VLSN) method. As our computational test results indicate, our work offers an attractive solution approach that can be tailored to successfully solve a broad class of problem instances for facility location and similar fixed-charge problems. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011.

published proceedings

  • JOURNAL OF HEURISTICS

author list (cited authors)

  • Rainwater, C., Geunes, J., & Romeijn, H. E.

citation count

  • 3

complete list of authors

  • Rainwater, Chase||Geunes, Joseph||Romeijn, H Edwin

publication date

  • April 2012