TY - CONF A1 - D'Andreagiovanni, Fabio A1 - Mett, Fabian A1 - Pulaj, Jonad T1 - An (MI)LP-based Primal Heuristic for 3-Architecture Connected Facility Location in Urban Access Network Design T2 - EvoApplications: European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation. Applications of Evolutionary Computation. 19th European Conference, EvoApplications 2016, Porto, Portugal, March 30 -- April 1, 2016, Proceedings, Part I N2 - We investigate the 3-architecture Connected Facility Location Problem arising in the design of urban telecommunication access networks integrating wired and wireless technologies. We propose an original optimization model for the problem that includes additional variables and constraints to take into account wireless signal coverage represented through signal-to-interference ratios. Since the problem can prove very challenging even for modern state-of-the art optimization solvers, we propose to solve it by an original primal heuristic that combines a probabilistic fixing procedure, guided by peculiar Linear Programming relaxations, with an exact MIP heuristic, based on a very large neighborhood search. Computational experiments on a set of realistic instances show that our heuristic can find solutions associated with much lower optimality gaps than a state-of-the-art solver. Y1 - 2016 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-zib/frontdoor/index/index/docId/5892 VL - 9597 SP - 283 EP - 298 ER -