Journal
COMPUTERS & OPERATIONS RESEARCH
Volume 35, Issue 4, Pages 1047-1064Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2006.07.002
Keywords
hub-and-spoke networks; benders decomposition; large-scale optimization
Ask authors/readers for more resources
In telecommunication and transportation systems, the uncapacitated multiple allocation hub location problem (UMAHLP) arises when we must flow commodities or information between several origin-destination pairs. Instead of establishing a direct node to node connection from an origin to its destination, the flows are concentrated with others at facilities called hubs. These flows are transported on links established between hubs, being then splitted and delivered to its final destination. Systems with this sort of topology are named hub-and-spoke (HS) systems or hub-and-spoke networks. They are designed to exploit the scale economies attainable through the shared use of high capacity links between hubs. Therefore, the problem is to find the least expensive HS network, selecting hubs and assigning traffic to them, given the demands between each origin-destination pair and the respective transportation costs. In the present paper, we present efficient Benders decomposition algorithms based on a well known formulation to tackle the UMAHLP. We have been able to solve some large instances, considered 'out of reach' of other exact methods in reasonable time. (C) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available