Integrating heuristic information into exact methods / Samir Salhi in Journal of the operational research society (JORS), Vol. 61 N° 11 (Novembre 2010)  

Integrating heuristic information into exact methods : the case of the vertex p-centre problem [texte imprimé] / Samir Salhi, Auteur ; A. Al-Khedhairi, Auteur . - 2011 . - pp. 1619–1631.
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Langues : Anglais (eng)
in Journal of the operational research society (JORS) > Vol. 61 N° 11 (Novembre 2010) . - pp. 1619–1631

Mots-clés :	Vertex p-centre Location Set covering problem (SCP) Multi-level heuristic Variable neighbourhood search (VNS) Exact method
Index. décimale :	001.424
Résumé :	We solve the vertex p-centre problem optimally using an exact method that considers both upper and lower bounds as part of its search engine. Tight upper bounds are generated quickly via an efficient three-level heuristic, which are then used to derive potential ‘lower bounds’ accordingly. These two pieces of information when used together make our chosen exact method more efficient at obtaining optimal solutions relatively quickly. The proposed implementation produced excellent results when tested on the OR Library data set. This integrated approach can be adopted for those exact methods that consider both upper and lower bounds within their search engine and hence provide a wider spectrum of applicability in other hard combinatorial problems.
DEWEY :	001.424
ISSN :	0160-5682
En ligne :	http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jors/journal/v61/n11/abs/jors200991a.html