We investigate the solution of instances of the uncapacitated facility location problem with at most 3000 potential facility locations and similar number of customers. We use heuristics that produce a feasible integer solution and a lower bound on the optimum. In particular, we present a new heuristic whose gap from optimality was generally below 1%. The heuristic combines the volume algorithm and a recent approximation algorithm based on randomized rounding. Our computational experiments show that our heuristic compares favorably against DUALOC.
By: Francisco Barahona, Fabian A. Chudak
Published in: RC21515 in 1999
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