title: Reliable Facility Location Problem with Facility Protection.
abstract: This paper studies a reliable facility location problem with facility protection that aims to hedge against random facility disruptions by both strategically protecting some facilities and using backup facilities for the demands. An Integer Programming model is proposed for this problem, in which the failure probabilities of facilities are site-specific. A solution approach combining Lagrangian Relaxation and local search is proposed and is demonstrated to be both effective and efficient based on computational experiments on random numerical examples with 49, 88, 150 and 263 nodes in the network. A real case study for a 100-city network in Hunan province, China, is presented, based on which the properties of the model are discussed and some managerial insights are analyzed.
authors: Science and Technology on Information Systems Engineering Laboratory, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan, China.
authors: Luohao
authors: L
authors: Tang
authors: Science and Technology on Information Systems Engineering Laboratory, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan, China.
authors: Cheng
authors: C
authors: Zhu
authors: College of Mechanical and Power Engineering, Chongqing University of Science and Technology, Chongqing, China.
authors: Zaili
authors: Z
authors: Lin
authors: Science and Technology on Information Systems Engineering Laboratory, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan, China.
authors: Jianmai
authors: J
authors: Shi
authors: Science and Technology on Information Systems Engineering Laboratory, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan, China.
authors: Weiming
authors: W
authors: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D002681:China; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D005160:Facility Design and Construction / Q000191:economics; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D011336:Probability; D012637:Security Measures