Journal article
Demand point aggregation analysis for a class of constrained location models: A penalty function approach
IIE transactions, Vol.36(7), pp.601-609
07/2004
DOI: 10.1080/07408170490278210
Abstract
Many location models involve location cost functions that depend on the distances between demand points and new facility locations. There can be so many demand points that they must be aggregated to obtain a tractable model. We consider a class of such problems where the location cost functions appear in both the objective and the constraints. By using the concept of a penalty function we obtain error bounds, that is, upper bounds on the errors introduced by aggregation. The error bounds can be used to drive demand point aggregation schemes, and consider both objective error and constraint error.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Demand point aggregation analysis for a class of constrained location models: A penalty function approach
- Creators
- Richard L. Francis - University of FloridaTimothy J. Lowe - University of IowaArie Tamir - Tel Aviv University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- IIE transactions, Vol.36(7), pp.601-609
- DOI
- 10.1080/07408170490278210
- ISSN
- 0740-817X
- eISSN
- 1545-8830
- Number of pages
- 9
- Grant note
- DMI-9908124 / National Science Foundation (http://data.elsevier.com/vocabulary/SciValFunders/100000001)
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 07/2004
- Academic Unit
- Business Analytics
- Record Identifier
- 9984963212802771
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