Article ID: | iaor2006427 |
Country: | Germany |
Volume: | 11 |
Issue: | 5/6 |
Start Page Number: | 375 |
End Page Number: | 391 |
Publication Date: | Dec 2005 |
Journal: | Journal of Heuristics |
Authors: | Prins Christian, Calvo Roberto Wolfler, Melechovsk Jan |
Keywords: | organization, heuristics |
The paper deals with a location–routing problem with non-linear cost functions. To the best of our knowledge, a mixed integer linear programming formulation for the addressed problem is proposed here for the first time. Since the problem is NP-hard exact algorithms are able to solve only particular cases, thus to solve more general versions heuristics are needed. The algorithm proposed in this paper is a combination of a