 Covering problems with polyellipsoids: A location analysis perspectiveVíctor Blanco and Justo Puerto European Journal of Operational Research, 2021, vol. 289, issue 1, 44-58 Abstract: In this paper we analyze the extension of the classical smallest enclosing disk problem to the case of the location of a polyellipsoid to fully cover a set of demand points in Rd. We prove that the problem is polynomially solvable in fixed dimension and analyze mathematical programming formulations for it. We also consider some geometric approaches for the problem in case the foci of the polyellipsoids are known. Extensions of the classical algorithm by Elzinga-Hearn are also derived for this new problem. Moreover, we address two extensions of the problem, as the case where the foci of the enclosing polyellipsoid are not given and have to be determined among a potential set of points or the induced covering problems when instead of polyellipsoids, one uses ordered median polyellipsoids. For these problems we also present Mixed Integer (Non) Linear Programming strategies that lead to efficient ways to solve it. Extensive computational experiments on different datasets show the usefulness of our solution methods. Keywords: Polyellipsoids; Covering location; Minimum enclosing disk; Second order cone programming (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:ejores:v:289:y:2021:i:1:p:44-58 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2020.06.048 Access Statistics for this article European Journal of Operational Research is currently edited by Roman Slowinski, Jesus Artalejo, Jean-Charles. Billaut, Robert Dyson and Lorenzo Peccati More articles in European Journal of Operational Research from Elsevier |
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