A GIS supported Ant algorithm for the linear feature covering problem with distance constraints

Badri, 1998, A multi-objective model for locating fire stations, European Journal of Operational Research, 110, 10.1016/S0377-2217(97)00247-6 Bullnheimer, 1997 Church, 2002, Geographical Information Systems and Location Science, Computers & Operations Research, 29, 10.1016/S0305-0548(99)00104-5 Cooper, 1965, vol. AM65-3, 63130 Daskin, 1995 M. Dorigo. Optimization, Learning and Natural Algorithms, PhD Thesis, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, 1992. Dorigo, 1995, Ant-Q: a Reinforcement learning approach to the traveling salesman problem, 252 Dorigo, 1997, Ant colony system: a cooperative learning approach to the traveling salesman problem, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 1, 10.1109/4235.585892 Haupt, 1997 Hertz, 2003, Guidelines for the use of meta-heuristics in combinatorial optimization, European Journal of Operational Research, 151, 247, 10.1016/S0377-2217(02)00823-8 Maniezzo, 1998, Exact and Approximate Nondeterministic Tree-search Procedures for the Quadratic Assignment Problem, vol. 98-1 Sakawa, 1993 Stützle, 1997, The MAX–MIN ant system and local search for the traveling salesman problem, 308 Tzeng, 1999, The optimal location of airport fire stations: a fuzzy multi-objective programming and revised genetic algorithm approach, Transportation Planning and Technology, 23, 10.1080/03081069908717638 Watson-Gandy, 1982, Heuristic procedures for the m-partial cover problem on a plane, European Journal of Operational Research, 11, 10.1016/0377-2217(82)90109-6