Article ID: | iaor2006336 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 27 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 57 |
End Page Number: | 65 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2000 |
Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
Authors: | Averbakh Igor |
Keywords: | location, scheduling, programming: integer |
We propose a general approach for finding minmax regret solutions for a class of combinatorial optimization problems with an objective function of minimax type and uncertain objective function coefficients. The approach is based on reducing a problem with uncertainty to a number of problems without uncertainty. The method is illustrated on bottleneck combinatorial optimization problems, minimax multifacility location problems and maximum weighted tardiness scheduling problems with uncertainty.