# sh07_main.txt # # Discussion: # # This is an artificial example used to illustrate a paper. # # The task was to locate 3 sources within the cities, so as # to minimize the total of the distance from each city to its # nearest source. # # Minimizing solution 1: # # sources in cities 4, 5, and 7 # # Total transportation distance 39.9 # # Minimizing solution 2: # # sources in cities 1, 4, and 7 # # Total transportation distance 39.9 # # Modified: # # 11 February 2009 # # Author: # # John Burkardt # # Reference: # # A M El-Shaieb, # A New Algorithm for Locating Sources Among Destinations, # Management Science, # Volume 20, Number 2, pages 221-231. # size 7 geom plane dist sh07_dist.txt