Emergencies that pose potential threats to our health, life, and properties can happen
anywhere and anytime and may result in huge losses if they are not handled timely and …

With emergencies being, unfortunately, part of our lives, it is crucial to efficiently plan and
allocate emergency response facilities that deliver effective and timely relief to people most …

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 …

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Research on facility location is abundant. However, this research does not typically address
the particular conditions that arise when locating facilities to service large-scale …

This chapter reviews the location set covering model, maximal covering model and P-
median model. These models form the heart of the models used in location planning in …

In this paper, we propose models and solution approaches for determining the facility
locations of medical supplies in response to large-scale emergencies. We address the …

We describe an ambulance location optimization model that minimizes the number of
ambulances needed to provide a specified service level. The model measures service level …

The purpose of this paper is to determine where to locate fire-station facilities. The decision
of where to locate depends upon a set of tangible and intangible criteria that are unique to a …

In the event of a catastrophic bio-terror attack, major urban centers need to efficiently
distribute large amounts of medicine to the population. In this paper, we consider a facility …