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Comparison of Alternative Location-Allocation Algorithms
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Why?
Brief Description of alternative methods
Classical tools
Genetic Algorithm based alternatives
A (hybrid) GA Method building for the Location-allocation problems
ZDES based zone design approach
ZDES Function
A different approach to the same problem
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BUT
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does it work?
Two data sets
Test data set 1 (30 demands / 6 centres )
Comparison of the results of the ALA, Rosing, and the GA based alternative
Result 1
Result 2
Result 3
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To test large data sets, Leeds ED data sets are used
Result 4
Result 5
GIS interface
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Conclusions
the SURPRISE was the excellent performance of the non-conventional ZDES approach esp. as LA problems are complex and the data size are larger
WWW page for the ZDES
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Authors: Young-Hoon Kim and Stan Openshaw
Email:
pgky@geog.leeds.ac.uk
stan@geog.leeds.ac.uk
Home Pages:
http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/pgrads/y.kim/
http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/staff/s.openshaw/
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