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A cut and branch approach for the capacitated $$p$$-median problem based on Fenchel cutting planes. (English) Zbl 1170.90521
Summary: The capacitated $$p$$-median problem (CPMP) consists of finding $$p$$ nodes (the median nodes) minimizing the total distance to the other nodes of the graph, with the constraint that the total demand of the nodes assigned to each median does not exceed its given capacity. In this paper we propose a cutting plane algorithm, based on Fenchel cuts, which allows us to considerably reduce the integrality gap of hard CPMP instances. The formulation strengthened with Fenchel cuts is solved by a commercial MIP solver. Computational results show that this approach is effective in solving hard instances or considerably reducing their integrality gap.

##### MSC:
 90C57 Polyhedral combinatorics, branch-and-bound, branch-and-cut
##### Keywords:
Cutting planes; Fenchel cuts
Knapsack; CPLEX
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