In this article, we propose a Lagrangian smoothing algorithm for the p-dispersion-sum problem (PDSP), a problem to locate p facilities at some of n predefined locations by maximizing the distance sum between the p established facilities, where the continuation subproblems are solved by the truncated Frank-Wolfe algorithm. We make the iteration from Lagrangian function to penalty function by controlling a parameter. We establish practical stopping criteria and prove that our algorithm finitely terminates at a KKT point. Compared to the discrete algorithm, the smoothing algorithm is free from the constraints of the number of nodes and more extensive. Numerical results indicate that our approach outperforms good and rapid for solving randomly generated problems in dimensional n ≥ 100.
原文出处:汉斯出版社数学与物理类期刊《运筹与模糊学》(期刊投稿)
离散p-扩散问题的连续化算法
An Efficient Lagrangian Smoothing Heuristic for the p-Dispersion-Sum Problem