TITLE:
Reliable Facility Systems Design Subject to Edge Failures: Based on the Uncapacitated Fixed-Charge Location Problem
AUTHORS:
Yuangang Pan, Yali Du, Zongtian Wei
KEYWORDS:
Facility System, Reliability, Edge Failure, Uncapacitated Fixed-Charge Location Problem
JOURNAL NAME:
American Journal of Operations Research,
Vol.4 No.3,
May
19,
2014
ABSTRACT:
The reliability of
facility location problem has aroused wide concern recently. Many researchers
focus on reliable and robust facility systems design under component failures
and have obtained promising performance. However, the target and reliability of
a facility system are to a large degree adversely affected by the edge
failures in the network, which remains a deep study. In this paper, we focus
on facility systems’ reliability subject to edge failures. For a facility location
system, we formulate two models based on classical uncapacitated fixed-charge
location problem under deterministic and stochastic cases. For a specific
example, location decisions and the comparison of reliability under different
location models are given. Extensive experiments verify that significant
improvements in reliability can be attained simply by increasing the amount of
operating cost.