Interfaces, Vol. 20, No. 4, The Practice of Mathematical Programming (Jul. - Aug., 1990), pp. 133-149 (17 pages) The auction algorithm is an intuitive method for solving the classical assignment ...

An example of the quadratic assignment problem (QAP) is the facility location problem, in which n facilities are assigned, at minimum cost, to n sites. Between each pair of facilities, there is a ...