Robustness of solutions to the capacitated facility location problem with uncertain demand

Baldacci R.;Caserta M.;Traversi E.;Wolfler Calvo R.

2022-01-01

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Abstract

We investigate the properties of robust solutions of the Capacitated Facility Location Problem with uncertain demand. We show that the monotonic behavior of the price of robustness is not guaranteed, and therefore that one cannot discriminate among alternative robust solutions by simply relying on the trade-off price-vs-robustness. Furthermore, we report a computational study on benchmark instances from the literature and on instances derived from a real-world application, which demonstrates the validity in practice of our findings.