An under-approximation for the robust uncertain two-level cooperative set covering problem

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Authors Shuxin Ding, Qi Zhang, Zhi-Ming Yuan

Publication date 29 March 2020

Abstract: This paper investigates the robust uncertain two-level cooperative set covering problem (RUTLCSCP). Given two types of facilities, which are called y-facility and z-facility. The problem is to decide which facilities of both types to be selected, in order to cover the demand nodes cooperatively with minimal cost. It combines the concepts of robust, probabilistic, and cooperative covering by introducting "$Gamma$-robust two-level-cooperative $alpha$-cover" constraints. Additionally, the constraint relaxed verison of the RUTLCSCP, which is also a linear approximation robust counterpart version of RUTLCSCP (RUTLCSCP-LA-RC), is developed by linear approximation of the constraints, and can be stated as a compact mixed-integer linear programming problem. We show that the solution for RUTLCSCP-LA-RC, $varepsilon$-under-approximate solution, can also be the solution for RUTLCSCP on some conditions. Computational experiments show that the solutions in 333 instances (10125 instances in total) with 12 types which tinily violate the constraints of RUTLCSCP, can be an efficient under-approximate solutions, while the feasible solutions in other instances are proven to be optimal.

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