The Multiple Capacitated Facility Location Problem (MCFLP) is well-known and studied in the international literature optimization problem. The geographical information data of the enterprises’ locations are usually either ignored by the modeler or entered manually in these systems. In this paper, a spatial Decision Support System (DSS) is designed and implemented enabling co-located collaborati...

Facility location allocation problem is a very important issue in today's global logistic management. Various facility location problems have been considered in operations research under somehow stringent conditions to reduce the search space. In this paper, we consider a class of single source capacitated facility location allocation problems that can assume more realistic conditions in real l...

There has been a great deal of recent work on approximation algorithms for facility location problems [9]. We consider the capacitated facility location problem with hard capacities. We are given a set of facilities, F , and a set of clients D in a common metric space. Each facility i has a facility opening cost fi and capacity ui that specifies the maximum number of clients that may be assigne...

We investigate a multi-commodity capacitated facility location problem involving sustainability concerns (e.g., restrained carbon emission). In addition, this incorporates complementarity demand function. show that incorporation can lead to superior decisions both analytically and computationally. The resultant formulation is 0–1 mixed-integer non-concave quadratic program with equilibrium cons...

We present a multiexchange local search algorithm for approximating the capacitated facility location problem (CFLP), where a new local improvement operation is introduced that possibly exchanges multiple facilities simultaneously. We give a tight analysis for our algorithm and show that the performance guarantee of the algorithm is between 3+ 2√2− and 3+ 2√2+ for any given constant > 0. The pr...

This thesis is a critical investigation into the development, application and evaluation of ant colony optimisation metaheuristics, with a view to solving a class of capacitated facility location problems. The study is comprised of three phases. The first sets the scene and motivation for research, which includes; key concepts of ant colony optimisation, a review of published academic materials...

Location problems have been the focus of considerable attention both in research and practice for many years. Numerous extensions have been described to broaden its appeal and enhance its applicability. This study proposes a spreadsheet approach for three well-known facility location problems, the p-median problem (PMP), capacitated p-median (CPMP), and maximal covering location problem (MCLP)....