| Article ID: | iaor1999570 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 48 |
| Issue: | 12 |
| Start Page Number: | 1233 |
| End Page Number: | 1240 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1997 |
| Journal: | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
| Authors: | Salhi S. |
| Keywords: | heuristics |
A constructive heuristic which has the flexibility of perturbing the solution while guiding the search toward a better solution is developed. Interesting findings are obtained when this heuristic is tested against reputable methods on a class of uncapacitated location problems.