The soft-capacitated facility location problem, where each facility is composed of a variable number of fixed-capacity production units, has been recently studied in several papers, especially in the metric case. In this paper, we only consider the general problem where connection costs do not systematically satisfy the triangle inequality property. We show that an adaptation of the set covering greedy heuristic, where the subproblem is approximately solved by a fully polynomial-time approximation...

The problem of finding structures with minimum stabbing number has received considerable attention from researchers. Particularly, [10] study the minimum stabbing number of perfect matchings (mspm), spanning trees (msst) and triangulations (mstr) associated to set of points in the plane. The complexity of the mstr remains open whilst the other two are known to be 𝓝𝓟-hard. This paper presents integer programming (ip) formulations for these three problems, that allowed us to...

The Bilevel Knapsack Problem (BKP) is a hierarchical optimization problem in which the feasible set is determined by the set of optimal solutions of parametric Knapsack Problem. In this paper, we propose two stages exact method for solving the BKP. In the first stage, a dynamic programming algorithm is used to compute the set of reactions of the follower. The second stage consists in solving an integer program reformulation of BKP. We show that the...