Simulated N-body: New particle physics-based heuristics for a Euclidean location-allocation problem

Journal of Heuristics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 23-36

  Simha, Rahul ^a   Cai, Weidong ^b   Spitkovsky, Valentin ^c  

^a The George Washington University   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GRAPH THEORY; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

EUCLIDEAN LOCATION-ALLOCATION PROBLEMS;

HEURISTIC METHODS;

EID: 0035128031     PISSN: 13811231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026561511574     Document Type: Article

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