An Efficient Approach for Solving Reliable Facility Location Models

• Published in: INFORMS journal on computing Vol. 25; no. 4; pp. 720 - 729
• Main Authors: Aboolian, Robert, Cui, Tingting, Shen, Zuo-Jun Max
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Linthicum INFORMS 22.09.2013; Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
• Subjects: Algorithms; Analysis; cutting planes; Facilities; facility location; Facility management; Facility management systems; heuristics; Industrial locations; Integer programming; Management; Methods; mixed integer program; Reliability; Studies; supply chain disruption

We consider reliable facility location models in which facilities are subject to unexpected failures, and customers may be reassigned to facilities other than their regular facilities. The objective is to minimize the total expected costs in normal and failure scenarios. We allow facilities to have...