This thesis aims to extend ”facility location - allocation” problems in three directions.
Multiple products are considered, a second echelon of distribution centers is added, and the non-linear inventory costs are included in objective function. Solving such problems with linear optimization techniques proves to be too computationally expen-
sive. Therefore, a heuristic approach, based on genetic algorithms, will be developed.
In the heuristic approach a large number of non-linear flow problems are solved, for which a simple and efficient algorithm will be formulated. Using this heuristic, large real world problems can be solved in relatively short time.
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This thesis aims to extend ”facility location - allocation” problems in three directions.
Multiple products are considered, a second echelon of distribution centers is added, and the non-linear inventory costs are included in objective function. Solving such problems with linear optimization techniques proves to be too computationally expen-
sive. Therefore, a heuristic approach, based on genetic algorithms, will be developed.
In the heuristic approach a large number of non-linear flow proble...
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