Research Article

Analyzing the Performance of a Hybrid Heuristic for Solving a Bilevel Location Problem under Different Approaches to Tackle the Lower Level

Table 1

Results for the small size instances.

InstanceEAEA+PREA+PRw
Best gapAverage gapTime (sec)Best gapAverage gapTime (sec)Best gapAverage gapTime (sec)

132-10.00%5.41%1.510.00%5.73%0.760.00%7.91%0.72
132-20.00%4.40%1.450.00%4.14%0.740.00%4.46%0.73
132-30.00%7.81%1.530.00%6.90%0.770.00%8.59%0.73
132-40.00%4.05%1.490.00%4.12%0.780.00%4.08%0.74
133-10.00%5.13%1.530.00%4.61%0.760.28%5.03%0.74
133-20.00%5.99%1.510.00%6.99%0.720.00%6.42%0.71
133-30.00%7.45%1.540.15%6.98%0.790.15%7.96%0.73
133-40.00%2.34%1.500.00%2.04%0.750.00%2.47%0.71
134-10.00%6.72%1.520.00%6.07%0.780.00%6.78%0.74
134-20.00%6.20%1.540.00%5.67%0.780.00%6.44%0.73
134-30.00%5.72%1.520.00%5.00%0.780.00%5.69%0.74
134-40.00%4.95%1.500.00%5.07%0.750.00%5.21%0.71