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AUSAI
2005
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A Multi-exchange Heuristic for a Production Location Problem
In this work, we develop a multi-exchange heuristic based on an estimation improvement graph embedded in a simulated annealing to solve a problem arising in plant location planning...
Yunsong Guo, Yanzhi Li, Andrew Lim, Brian Rodrigue...
ORL
1998
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13 years 5 months ago
Heuristic solution of the multisource Weber problem as a p-median problem
Good heuristic solutions for large Multisource Weber problems can be obtained by solving related p-median problems in which potential locations of the facilities are users location...
Pierre Hansen, Nenad Mladenovic, Éric D. Ta...
EOR
2006
76views more  EOR 2006»
13 years 5 months ago
Location of slaughterhouses under economies of scale
The facility location problem described in this paper comes from an industrial application in the slaughterhouse industry of Norway. Investigations show that the slaughterhouse in...
John v. d. Broek, Peter Schütz, Leen Stougie,...
DAM
2006
83views more  DAM 2006»
13 years 5 months ago
Scheduling workover rigs for onshore oil production
Many oil wells in Brazilian onshore fields rely on artificial lift methods. Maintenance services such as cleaning, reinstatement, stimulation and others are essential to these wel...
Dario J. Aloise, Daniel Aloise, Caroline T. M. Roc...
HPCN
1995
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Discrete optimisation and real-world problems
In the global economy, proper organisation and planning of production and storage locations, transportation and scheduling are vital to retain the competitive edge of companies. Th...
Josef Kallrath, Anna Schreieck