Facility Location

Facility Location
Author: Reza Zanjirani Farahani
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 547
Release: 2009-07-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3790821519

Location problems establish a set of facilities (resources) to minimize the cost of satisfying a set of demands (customers) with respect to a set of constraints. This book deals with location problems. It considers the relationship between location problems and other areas such as supply chains.

Facility Layout and Location

Facility Layout and Location
Author: R. L. Francis
Publisher: Pearson Education
Total Pages: 616
Release: 1992
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Providing a comprehensive inroduction to quantitative methods for facility layout and location, this text is directed at senior and graduate level students in industrial engineering, manufacturing systems, management science, and operations research curricula. Problems of facility layout and location are treated together because of the similarity between arranging the space in a single facility and arranging a systems of facilities. An introduction to the field'sissues and literature is included, along with the basic tools and methodologies. The second edition revises over half of the text to provide material reflecting the most current developments. Chapters contain explanations of what layout and location problems are, how to collect data, and show how to model and solve such problems.

Logistics of Facility Location and Allocation

Logistics of Facility Location and Allocation
Author: Dileep R. Sule
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 459
Release: 2001-03-14
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0824745159

An introduction to pragmatic methods for solving complex problems in facilities location: choosing from among known feasible sites or a broad range described as an area, placing facilities, and assigning customers. It emphasizes careful location and customer allocation to determine optimum use of time and cost - improving flow of materials and services and reducing the need for duplication or construction redundancies.

Facility Location

Facility Location
Author: Zvi Drezner
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2001-11-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3540421726

The book covers both theory and applications of locational analysis (LocAn). The reader will see the power of LocAn models in various real-world contexts, varying from communication design to robotics and mail delivery. It is divided into two parts. The first part contains an overview of some of the LocAn methodologies. The second part describes in thorough detail some selected applications. The text provides researchers with an excellent and well thought-out review of available location models.

Spatial Interaction Models

Spatial Interaction Models
Author: Lina Mallozzi
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2017-04-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3319526545

Facility location theory develops the idea of locating one or more facilities by optimizing suitable criteria such as minimizing transportation cost, or capturing the largest market share. The contributions in this book focus an approach to facility location theory through game theoretical tools highlighting situations where a location decision is faced by several decision makers and leading to a game theoretical framework in non-cooperative and cooperative methods. Models and methods regarding the facility location via game theory are explored and applications are illustrated through economics, engineering, and physics. Mathematicians, engineers, economists and computer scientists working in theory, applications and computational aspects of facility location problems using game theory will find this book useful.

Single-Facility Location Problems with Barriers

Single-Facility Location Problems with Barriers
Author: Kathrin Klamroth
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2006-04-06
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0387227075

This text develops the mathematical implications of barriers to the geometrical and analytical characteristics of continuous location problems. The book will appeal to those working in operations research and management science, and mathematicians interested in optimization theory and its applications.

Uncertainty in Facility Location Problems

Uncertainty in Facility Location Problems
Author: H. A. Eiselt
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 443
Release: 2023-09-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3031323386

This book deals with an often-neglected feature of location problems, namely uncertainty, by combining two related fields: location theory and optimization. Written by leading researchers and practitioners in these fields, each chapter examines one aspect of the location process in different contexts, such as supply chains; location decisions under congestion; disaster management; design of resilient facilities; uncertainty in the health sector; and facility location in the retail sector under uncertainty. The book also addresses methodological aspects, such as chance-constrained approaches, heuristic algorithms, scenario approaches, and simulation. As such, it provides decision-makers with essential methods, tools and approaches to help them deal with these uncertainties. It is mainly intended for graduate students in the fields of operations research and logistics, as well as professionals in logistics and supply chain management.

Freight Facility Location Selection

Freight Facility Location Selection
Author: Christopher W. Steele
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2011
Genre: Freight and freightage
ISBN: 0309213541

TRB's National Freight Cooperative Research Program (NFCRP) Report 13: Freight Facility Location Selection: A Guide for Public Officials describes the key criteria that the private sector considers when making decisions on where to build new logistics facilities. A final report that provides background material used in the development of NFCRP Report 13 has been published as NCFRP Web-Only Document 1: Background Research Material for Freight Facility Location Selection: A Guide for Public Officials (NCFRP Report 13).

Single-Facility Location Problems with Barriers

Single-Facility Location Problems with Barriers
Author: Kathrin Klamroth
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2002-10-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0387954988

This text develops the mathematical implications of barriers to the geometrical and analytical characteristics of continuous location problems. The book will appeal to those working in operations research and management science, and mathematicians interested in optimization theory and its applications.