Since the 1950s, the number of natural and man-made disasters has increased
exponentially and the facility location problem has become the preferred approach for …

The objective of facility location models is to maximize the profit or minimize the cost of a
company that wishes to expand or enter the market. The market share captured by facilities …

We present a survey of over 50 representative problems in location research. Our goal is not
to review all variants of different location models or to describe solution results, but rather to …

Delineating the tremendous growth in this area, the Handbook of Approximation Algorithms
and Metaheuristics covers fundamental, theoretical topics as well as advanced, practical …

The study of approximate mechanism design for facility location problems has been in the
center of research at the intersection of artificial intelligence and economics for the last …

Following a brief taxonomy of the broad field of facility location modeling, this paper provides
an annotated bibliography of recent papers in two branches of discrete location theory and …

Many location models minimize some function of the distances between facilities. This is
appropriate when locating service facilities. However, if one is locating an obnoxious facility …

Comprehensively teaches the fundamentals of supply chain theory This book presents the
methodology and foundations of supply chain management and also demonstrates how …

In this paper we review research on the location of facilities that have a negative impact on
surrounding communities which are defined in the literature, for example, as obnoxious …

The dispersion problem arises in selecting facilities to maximize some function of the
distances between the facilities. The problem also arises in selecting nondominated …