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Researchers and practitioners have addressed many variants of facility locations problems. Each location problem can be substantially different from each other depending on the objectives and/or constraints considered. In this paper, the bi-objective obnoxious p-median problem (Bi-OpM) is addressed given the huge interest to locate facilities such as waste or hazardous disposal facilities, nuclear power or chemical plants and noisy or polluting services, among others. The Bi-OpM aims to locate p facilities maximizing two different objectives: the distance between each customer and their nearest facility center and the dispersion among facilities. To address the Bi-OpM problem a Multi-objective Parallel Variable Neighborhood Search approach (Mo-PVNS) is implemented. Computational results indicate the superiority of the Mo-PVNS compared to the state-of-art algorithms.
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Ana D. López-Sánchez acknowledges support from the Spanish Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad through Grant Number ECO2016-76567-C4-1-R. Jesús Sánchez-Oro and J. Manuel Colmenar acknowledge support from the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (MCIU / AEI / FEDER, UE) under Grant Ref. PGC2018-095322-B-C22, and Comunidad de Madrid y Fondos Estructurales de la Unión Europea with Grant Ref. P2018/TCS-4566.
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Sánchez-Oro, J., López-Sánchez, A.D. & Colmenar, J.M. A multi-objective parallel variable neighborhood search for the bi-objective obnoxious p-median problem. Optim Lett 16, 301–331 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11590-020-01690-0
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