In this paper a new formulation of the simple plant location problem (SPLP) is given that uses the style of Sharma and Sharma (European Journal of Operational Research, 122(3), 37–48). When the integer restrictions are relaxed, it results in a new relaxation of SPLP that is different from the...

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