Article ID: | iaor2009440 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 179 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 1143 |
End Page Number: | 1159 |
Publication Date: | Jun 2007 |
Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
Authors: | Mesa Juan A., Ortega Francisco A., Cceres Teresa |
Keywords: | location, computational analysis |
A waste pipeline, considered as an undesirable facility, is to be located in a coastal region. Two criteria are taken into account, the Euclidean distance from a given set of protected areas (coral reefs and sandbanks) and a utility function related to the pipe length, both to be maximized. The paper describes a methodology to obtain an efficient set of points where the extreme of a marine pipeline should be located. Since the formulation of the model is based on the zone Voronoi diagram, the computational complexity of the solving procedure is low.