Locating an undesirable facility by generalized cutting planes

Citation
E. Carrizosa et F. Plastria, Locating an undesirable facility by generalized cutting planes, MATH OPER R, 23(3), 1998, pp. 680-694
Citations number
18
Categorie Soggetti
Mathematics
Journal title
MATHEMATICS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH
ISSN journal
0364765X → ACNP
Volume
23
Issue
3
Year of publication
1998
Pages
680 - 694
Database
ISI
SICI code
0364-765X(199808)23:3<680:LAUFBG>2.0.ZU;2-L
Abstract
We address the problem of locating an undesirable facility within a compact set by minimizing a strictly decreasing boundedly lower subdifferentiable function of the squared Euclidean distances to a set of fixed points. Using (generalized) cutting planes, the resolution of this problem is reduc ed to solving a sequence of maxmin problems. These maxmin problems have a c lear geometrical interpretation, which enables to solve them sequentially b y means of an on-line enumeration of the vertices of polyhedra in higher di mensions.