We address a discrete competitive facility location problem for an entering firm with a binary customers choice rule and an asymmetric objective function. A heuristic optimization algorithm which is based on ranking of candidate locations and specially adopted for the discrete facility location problems is designed. The proposed algorithm is experimentally investigated by solving different instances of the facility location problem with an asymmetric objective function.
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Ranking-based discrete optimization algorithm for asymmetric competitive facility location
Semantic Scholar · Computer Science · 2019
Abstract
We address a discrete competitive facility location problem for an entering firm with a binary customers choice rule and an asymmetric objective function. A heuristic optimization algorithm which is based on ranking of candidate locations and specially adopted for the discrete facility location problems is designed. The proposed algorithm is experimentally investigated by solving different instances of the facility location problem with an asymmetric objective function.