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Solution approaches to hub location problems

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  • Sue Abdinnour-Helm
  • M.A. Venkataramanan

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The hub location problem involves a network of origins and destinations over which transport takes place. Any distribution system falls into this type of category. In this paper, we present a new quadratic integer formulation for the Uncapacitated Hub Location Problem (UHP), which is based on the idea of multi-commodity flows in networks. This new formulation lends itself well for using a branch-and-bound procedure to find optimal solutions. The branch-and-bound procedure is not implemented in a traditional fashion, where bounds are obtained by linearizing the objective function and relaxing the integrality constraints. Instead, a more sophisticated approach is used where bounds are obtained by employing the underlying network structure of the problem. In addition, an artificial intelligence-based technique (Genetic Search) is designed to find solutions quickly and efficiently. The two solution approaches assume that the number of hubs is a variable, each spoke is assigned to a single hub, and all hubs are interconnected. The model and the algorithm can be applied even when all the hubs are not directly linked. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1998

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  • Sue Abdinnour-Helm & M.A. Venkataramanan, 1998. "Solution approaches to hub location problems," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 78(0), pages 31-50, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:annopr:v:78:y:1998:i:0:p:31-50:10.1023/a:1018954217758
    DOI: 10.1023/A:1018954217758
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