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Models for multi-path covering-routing problems

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Research on covering has concentrated on problems where the facilities are small inrelation to their cover sets and can justifiably be regarded as points. However, representationby a point is not reasonable for all facilities. In this paper, our objective is to consider pathcovering problems and study them with particular emphasis on multi-path models. We introducea new problem, 2-MPSP, then formulate it and some of its variants. We also outlinetwo solution approaches for solving the 2-MPSP problem.

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Boffey, B., Narula, S.C. Models for multi-path covering-routing problems. Annals of Operations Research 82, 331–342 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018923022243

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