Single-facility huff location problems on networks

Huff location problems have been extensively analyzed within the field of competitive continuous location. In this work, two Huff location models on networks are addressed, by considering that users go directly to the facility or they visit the facility in their way to a destination. Since the probl...

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Authors: Blanquero Bravo, Rafael, Carrizosa Priego, Emilio José, Nogales Gómez, Amaya, Plastria, Frank
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2013
Country:España
Institution:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repository:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/107835
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/107835
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-013-1445-x
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Huff location models
Location on networks
DC optimization
Interval analysis
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Summary:Huff location problems have been extensively analyzed within the field of competitive continuous location. In this work, two Huff location models on networks are addressed, by considering that users go directly to the facility or they visit the facility in their way to a destination. Since the problems are multimodal, a branch and bound algorithm is proposed, in which two different bounding strategies, based on Interval Analysis and DC optimization, are used and compared. Computational results are given for the two bounding procedures, showing that problems of rather realistic size can be solved in reasonable time.