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One‐facility location with rectilinear tour distances

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  • Z. Drezner
  • G. Steiner
  • G. O. Wesolowsky

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This article concerns the location of a facility among n points where the points are serviced by “tours” taken from the facility. Tours include m points at a time and each group of m points may become active (may need a tour) with some known probability. Distances are assumed to be rectilinear. For m ≤ 3, it is proved that the objective function is separable in each dimension and an exact solution method is given that involves finding the median of numbers appropriately generated from the problem data. It is shown that the objective function becomes multimodal when some tours pass through four or more points. A bounded heuristic procedure is suggested for this latter case. This heuristic involves solving an auxiliary three‐point tour location problem.

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  • Z. Drezner & G. Steiner & G. O. Wesolowsky, 1985. "One‐facility location with rectilinear tour distances," Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 32(3), pages 391-405, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:navlog:v:32:y:1985:i:3:p:391-405
    DOI: 10.1002/nav.3800320304
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