Good heuristic solutions for large multisource Weber problems can be obtained by solving related p-median problems in which potential locations of the facilities are users locations and then solving Weber problems for the sets of users of each facility.
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Heuristic solution of the multisource Weber problem as a p-median problem
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Hansen, Pierre (GERAD and Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Montreal, Canada) Mladenović, Nenad (GERAD and Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Montreal, Canada) Taillard, Éric D. (IDSIA, Lugano, Switzerland)