Artificial Bee Colony Optimization Algorithm for Uncapacitated Facility Location Problems.

In this paper, a new multiple facility location and allocation method is proposed. This algorithm assigns demand points to pre-determined facilities which have infinite capacities, by using an artificial bee colony optimization with local search to solve discrete uncapacitated multiple facility loca...

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Publicado en:Journal of Economic & Social Research Vol. 14; no. 1; pp. 1 - 25
Autores principales: Tuncbilek, Nukhet, Tasgetiren, Fatih, Esnaf, Sakir
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Department of Economics at Fatih University 2012
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          Tuncbilek, Nukhet
          Tasgetiren, Fatih
          Esnaf, Sakir
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          Istanbul Kultur University, Istanbul
          Yasar University, Izmir
          Istanbul University, Istanbul
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        Türkiye
        Colonies
        Facility location problems
        Mathematical optimization
        Algorithms
        Particle swarm optimization
        Transportation costs
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          Mathematical optimization
          Algorithms
          Particle swarm optimization
          Transportation costs
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        Artificial Bee Colony Optimization
        Discrete Uncapacitated Facility Location
        Local Search
        Artificial Bee Colony Optimization
        Discrete Uncapacitated Facility Location
        Local Search
      ab: In this paper, a new multiple facility location and allocation method is proposed. This algorithm assigns demand points to pre-determined facilities which have infinite capacities, by using an artificial bee colony optimization with local search to solve discrete uncapacitated multiple facility location problems. This method is tested and compared with continuous and discrete particle swarm optimization based facility location methods on alternative models with or without local search for optimizing the well-known benchmark problems and generated problems.Similar test is conducted on actual demand and transportation cost data from a fertilizer manufacturer from Turkey, which includes 11 facility locations and 768 demand points. Proposed ABC-based algorithm exhibited better performance than the PSO-based algorithms.
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