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An aggressive reduction scheme for the simple plant location problem

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<mark>Journal publication date</mark>1/05/2014
<mark>Journal</mark>European Journal of Operational Research
Issue number3
Volume234
Number of pages9
Pages (from-to)674-682
Publication StatusPublished
Early online date18/10/13
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

Pisinger et al. introduced the concept of 'aggressive reduction' for large-scale combinatorial optimisation problems. The idea is to spend much time and effort in reducing the size of the instance, in the hope that the reduced instance will then be small enough to be solved by an exact algorithm. We present an aggressive reduction scheme for the 'Simple Plant Location Problem', which is a classical problem arising in logistics. The scheme involves four different reduction rules, along with lower- and upper-bounding procedures. The scheme turns out to be particularly effective for instances in which the facilities and clients correspond to points on the Euclidean plane.

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The final, definitive version of this article has been published in the Journal, European Journal of Operational Research 234 (3), 2014, © ELSEVIER.