The bicriterion semi-obnoxious location problem solved by an ε-approximation

The bicriterion semi-obnoxious location problem solved by an ε-approximation

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Article ID: iaor20042510
Country: Netherlands
Volume: 146
Issue: 3
Start Page Number: 517
End Page Number: 528
Publication Date: May 2003
Journal: European Journal of Operational Research
Authors: ,
Keywords: decision theory: multiple criteria, networks
Abstract:

Locating an obnoxious (undesirable) facility is often modeled by the maximin or maxisum problem. But the obnoxious facility is often placed unrealistically far away from the demand points (nodes), resulting in prohibitively high transportation cost/time. One solution is to model the problem as a semi-obnoxious location problem. Here we model the problem as a bicriterion problem, not in advance determining the importance of the obnoxious objective compared to the cost/time objective. We consider this model for both the planar and the network case. The two problems are solved by an approximation algorithm, and the models are briefly compared by means of a real-life example.

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