IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/lnechp/978-3-642-00939-6_5.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Scatter Search for locating a treatment plant and the necessary transfer centers in a reverse network

In: Metaheuristics in the Service Industry

Author

Listed:
  • Míguel Ortega-Mier

    (Technical University of Madrid)

  • Joaquín Delgado Hipólito

    (Technical University of Madrid)

  • Álvaro García-Sánchez

    (Technical University of Madrid)

Abstract

In the area of Reverse Logistics, the problem of selecting locations for its key facilities consists in locating waste treatment plants, transfer centers and, in general, collection facilities. In this paper a location problem in a reverse system is presented (the so-called STPNTCLP). Put simply, this problem consists in deciding where to locate one treatment plant and its necessary transfer centers. The problem both in deterministic and stochastic terms is solved with a Scatter Search based approach that offers a better performance in both real and randomly generated cases than the proposed exact method (MILP formulation).

Suggested Citation

  • Míguel Ortega-Mier & Joaquín Delgado Hipólito & Álvaro García-Sánchez, 2009. "Scatter Search for locating a treatment plant and the necessary transfer centers in a reverse network," Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, in: Kenneth Sörensen & Marc Sevaux & Walter Habenicht & Martin Josef Geiger (ed.), Metaheuristics in the Service Industry, chapter 5, pages 63-81, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:lnechp:978-3-642-00939-6_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-00939-6_5
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:lnechp:978-3-642-00939-6_5. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.