An NP-hard variant of the single-source Capacitated Facility Location Problem is studied, where each facility is composed of a variable number of fixed-capacity production units. This problem, especially the metric case, has been recently studied in several papers. In this paper, we only...

In outranking methods for Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM), pair-wise comparisons of alternatives are often summarized through a fuzzy preference relation. In this paper, the binary preference relation is extended to pairs of subsets of alternatives in order to define on this basis a...