Heuristics for a facility location problem with a quadratic objective function

Facility location problems are an important set of problems within the field of optimisation. These problems consider which facilities to open out of a set of possible facilities and how to assign users to the open facilities. Most of the facility location problems studied have a linear objective. In this thesis, we consider a facility location...

Future of cities: A research for the optimization of the application of instruments within a municipality to increase sustainability in area development

Currently the world is dealing with a pandemic. The world has stopped, and people are distancing from each other. However, this large crisis is not the only crisis the world is currently dealing with. Climate change is affecting the world drastically since the last century. Our current way of development must stop to deal with this change. This...