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Table 2
Computational results for problem size 3000 suppliers, 100 co-ops, and c customers.
| Number of customers | Execution time (s) | Total distance in each cluster |
Traveled distance in the system | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Max | Min | Avg | SD | |||
| MDSR heuristic | ||||||
| 100 | 2184.73 | 2371.53 | 371.73 | 1013.33 | 430.06 | 101 332.90 |
| 200 | 2154.42 | 2455.63 | 395.40 | 1091.07 | 443.44 | 109 107.27 |
| 300 | 2130.03 | 2567.30 | 408.63 | 1153.19 | 441.59 | 115 318.60 |
| 400 | 2143.85 | 2658.77 | 478.73 | 1212.45 | 441.67 | 121 245.17 |
| 500 | 2173.65 | 2836.92 | 591.21 | 1274.18 | 478.39 | 127 418.04 |
| MDSRB heuristic | ||||||
| 100 | 28.03 | 1708.03 | 542.13 | 1103.95 | 283.52 | 110 394.97 |
| 200 | 26.18 | 1801.57 | 663.17 | 1227.99 | 275.47 | 122 798.80 |
| 300 | 29.07 | 1802.97 | 666.70 | 1262.40 | 276.23 | 126 239.87 |
| 400 | 28.16 | 1859.37 | 693.03 | 1296.09 | 279.26 | 129 609.20 |
| 500 | 26.60 | 2094.19 | 659.77 | 1335.52 | 347.92 | 133 552.00 |