On heuristic bi-criterion methods for semi-obnoxious facility location. Ortigosa, P. M., Hendrix, E. M. T., & Rendondo, J. L. Computational Optimization and Applications, 61:205–217, 2015.
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Locating a semi-obnoxious facility, like an airport or correctional center is typically a bi-criterion problem combining a convex objective function representing minimum transportation cost with a multi-extremal objective function representing the non-desirable part of the facility. Generic one or bi-objective heuristic methods can be applied to generate efficient locations for the problem. We consider the location of one facility in the plane and show that a simple random or grid search with filtering already provides a very good picture of the trade-off between the two objectives. Moreover, we argue that instead of using bi-criterion meta-heuristics, one could better exploit the convex–nonconvex structure of the problem applying the constraint method. We show how to evaluate the methods systematically using several heuristics from literature.
@article{ortigosa_heuristic_2015,
	title = {On heuristic bi-criterion methods for semi-obnoxious facility location},
	volume = {61},
	issn = {0926-6003},
	doi = {10.1007/s10589-014-9709-1},
	abstract = {Locating a semi-obnoxious facility, like an airport or correctional center is typically a bi-criterion problem combining a convex objective function representing minimum transportation cost with a multi-extremal objective function representing the non-desirable part of the facility. Generic one or bi-objective heuristic methods can be applied to generate efficient locations for the problem. We consider the location of one facility in the plane and show that a simple random or grid search with filtering already provides a very good picture of the trade-off between the two objectives. Moreover, we argue that instead of using bi-criterion meta-heuristics, one could better exploit the convex–nonconvex structure of the problem applying the constraint method. We show how to evaluate the methods systematically using several heuristics from literature.},
	language = {English},
	journal = {Computational Optimization and Applications},
	author = {Ortigosa, P. M. and Hendrix, E. M. T. and Rendondo, J. L.},
	year = {2015},
	keywords = {desirable facility, global optimization, model, multiobjective optimization, search},
	pages = {205--217}
}

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