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A polyhedral study of a two level facility location model

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2014

Mourad Baïou
Affiliation:
CNRS, LIMOS, and Université Blaise Pascal, Complexe scientifique des Cézeaux, 63173 Aubiere Cedex, France.. mourad.baiou@isima.fr
Francisco Barahona
Affiliation:
IBM T. J. Watson research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY 10589, USA.; barahon@us.ibm.com
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Abstract

We study an uncapacitated facility location model where customers are served byfacilities of level one, then each level one facility that is opened must be assigned toan opened facility of level two. We identify a polynomially solvable case, and study somevalid inequalities and facets of the associated polytope.

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© EDP Sciences, ROADEF, SMAI, 2014

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