# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

October  2010, 6(4): 751-760. doi: 10.3934/jimo.2010.6.751

## Robust solutions to Euclidean facility location problems with uncertain data

 1 Department of Mathematical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084 2 Department of Mathematics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan

Received  July 2009 Revised  April 2010 Published  September 2010

We consider uncertainty Euclidean facility location problems. Using the existing robust optimization methodology, we certainly obtain robust optimal solution of the Euclidean facility location problem with unknown-but-bounded uncertainty or with an ellipsoidal uncertainty by solving an SOCP or an SDP. In addition, we show that the robust counterpart of the Euclidean facility location problem with $\cap$-ellipsoidal uncertainty is NP-hard. We give an explicit SDP to approximate the NP-hard problem and estimate the quality of the approximation via the level of conservativeness.
Citation: Liping Zhang, Soon-Yi Wu. Robust solutions to Euclidean facility location problems with uncertain data. Journal of Industrial & Management Optimization, 2010, 6 (4) : 751-760. doi: 10.3934/jimo.2010.6.751
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