Research Article

A Heuristic Algorithm for Constrained Multi-Source Location Problem with Closest Distance under Gauge: The Variational Inequality Approach

Table 2

Numerical results of VI approach and Weiszfeld-type method for Example 19.

VI approach Weiszfeld-type method Impro. Freq.
No. of Iter.0 No. of Iter. CPU Obj. No. of Iter. CPU Obj. percent num.

1 25.11 59.96 0.015 15.4465 52.99 0.0117 15.5664 0.78 90
25.04 58.97 0.015 15.1803 27.28 0.0055 15.2926 0.74 92
25.35 60.89 0.015 15.3693 31.11 0.0070 15.4834 0.74 92
25.24 59.80 0.015 15.0924 35.45 0.0080 15.1961 0.69 90
23.61 55.13 0.014 14.6321 34.27 0.0069 14.7055 0.50 93

0.1 32.95 278.26 0.060 4.2157 28.59 0.0082 4.6791 10.99 63
32.11 270.81 0.059 4.0864 60.38 0.0135 4.4318 8.45 66
34.07 301.67 0.067 4.2248 36.63 0.0081 4.6001 8.88 63
34.16 278.24 0.065 4.1189 34.03 0.0067 4.4854 8.89 63
32.63 280.00 0.062 4.0842 38.20 0.0069 4.3619 6.80 64

0.01 33.11 427.34 0.089 3.0633 25.85 0.0063 3.8005 24.07 28
35.28 407.61 0.086 3.0615 39.92 0.0087 3.7669 23.04 25
39.26 382.82 0.080 3.1259 26.53 0.0064 3.6954 18.22 29
35.46 425.33 0.089 2.9975 35.06 0.0077 3.6500 21.77 35
32.96 437.24 0.091 3.0691 57.90 0.0130 3.6925 20.31 33

0.001 35.44 151.52 0.035 3.0477 18.88 0.0045 3.8310 25.70 15
36.87 140.58 0.032 3.0224 17.20 0.0048 3.7128 22.84 14
33.43 91.72 0.022 2.9797 17.53 0.0042 3.9617 32.96 17
33.79 115.79 0.027 2.9600 15.20 0.0044 3.7221 25.75 19
37.19 96.08 0.022 3.1936 16.47 0.0047 4.1362 29.52 18