Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6895970 | European Journal of Operational Research | 2016 | 12 Pages |
Abstract
The planar maximal covering location problem (PMCLP) concerns the placement of a given number of facilities anywhere on a plane to maximize coverage. Solving PMCLP requires identifying a candidate locations set (CLS) on the plane before reducing it to the relatively simple maximal covering location problem (MCLP). The techniques for identifying the CLS have been mostly dominated by the well-known circle intersect points set (CIPS) method. In this paper we first review PMCLP, and then discuss the advantages and weaknesses of the CIPS approach. We then present a mean-shift based algorithm for treating large-scale PMCLPs, i.e., MSMC. We test the performance of MSMC against the CIPS approach on randomly generated data sets that vary in size and distribution pattern. The experimental results illustrate MSMC's outstanding performance in tackling large-scale PMCLPs.
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Authors
Zhou He, Bo Fan, T.C.E. Cheng, Shou-Yang Wang, Chin-Hon Tan,