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Performance of heuristic and approximation algorithms for the uncapacitated facility location problem

Hoefer, Martin

December 2002, 27 pages.

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The uncapacitated facility location problem (UFLP) is a problem that has been studied intensively in operational research. Recently a variety of new deterministic and heuristic approximation algorithms have evolved. In this paper, we compare five new approaches to this problem - the JMS- and the MYZ-approximation algorithms, a version of local search, a Tabu Search algorithm as well as a version of the Volume algorithm with randomized rounding. We compare solution quality and running times on different standard benchmark instances. With these instances and additional material a web page was set up, where the material used in this study is accessible.
Categories / Keywords:
facility location; experimental study; benchmark library

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@TECHREPORT{Hoefer2002,
  AUTHOR = {Hoefer, Martin},
  TITLE = {Performance of heuristic and approximation algorithms for the uncapacitated facility location problem},
  TYPE = {Research Report},
  INSTITUTION = {Max-Planck-Institut f{\"u}r Informatik},
  ADDRESS = {Stuhlsatzenhausweg 85, 66123 Saarbr{\"u}cken, Germany},
  NUMBER = {MPI-I-2002-1-005},
  MONTH = {December},
  YEAR = {2002},
  ISSN = {0946-011X},
}