| Article ID: | iaor2009866 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 59 |
| Issue: | 5 |
| Start Page Number: | 624 |
| End Page Number: | 636 |
| Publication Date: | May 2008 |
| Journal: | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
| Authors: | Srensen K. |
| Keywords: | heuristics: tabu search, simulation: applications |
We investigate how robust and flexible solutions of stochastic capacitated facility location problems (CFLPs) can be obtained by combining metaheuristic optimization with Monte Carlo sampling techniques. To this end, we develop a tabu search procedure for the CFLP, and use this to solve an extensive set of stochastic versions of this problem.