Location Science

Location Science
Author: Gilbert Laporte
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 650
Release: 2015-02-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3319131117

This comprehensive and clearly structured book presents essential information on modern Location Science. The book is divided into three parts: basic concepts, advanced concepts and applications. Written by the most respected specialists in the field and thoroughly reviewed by the editors, it first lays out the fundamental problems in Location Science and provides the reader with basic background information on location theory. Part II covers advanced models and concepts, broadening and expanding on the content presented in Part I. It provides the reader with important tools to help them understand and solve real-world location problems. Part III is dedicated to linking Location Science with other areas like GIS, telecommunications, healthcare, rapid transit networks, districting problems and disaster events, presenting a wide range of applications. This part enables the reader to understand the role of facility location in such areas, as well as to learn how to handle realistic location problems. The book is intended for researchers working on theory and applications involving location problems and models. It is also suitable as a textbook for graduate courses on facility location.

Location Covering Models

Location Covering Models
Author: Richard L. Church
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2018-12-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3319998463

This book provides a thoughtful and rigorous guide to coverage modeling, reviewing essential models, solution approaches, and related applications. Since the early developments of the Location Set Covering Problem and the Maximal Covering Location Problem, models based upon some form of coverage have been extended and applied in a number of areas, helping to improve services offered to citizens of large cities and regions. Examples include trauma care services, transit systems design, cell tower location, and many others. The book not only describes the strengths and weaknesses of currently available models, but also presents details on major developments, including solution procedures and applications, making it well suited both as a reference text and a textbook for graduate level courses.

Soft Computing for Problem Solving

Soft Computing for Problem Solving
Author: Aruna Tiwari
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 779
Release: 2021-10-13
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9811627096

This two-volume book provides an insight into the 10th International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving (SocProS 2020). This international conference is a joint technical collaboration of Soft Computing Research Society and Indian Institute of Technology Indore. The book presents the latest achievements and innovations in the interdisciplinary areas of soft computing. It brings together the researchers, engineers and practitioners to discuss thought-provoking developments and challenges, in order to select potential future directions. It covers original research papers in the areas including but not limited to algorithms (artificial immune system, artificial neural network, genetic algorithm, genetic programming and particle swarm optimization) and applications (control systems, data mining and clustering, finance, weather forecasting, game theory, business and forecasting applications). The book will be beneficial for young as well as experienced researchers dealing across complex and intricate real-world problems for which finding a solution by traditional methods is a difficult task.

Routledge Handbook of Transportation

Routledge Handbook of Transportation
Author: Dusan Teodorovic
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 483
Release: 2015-08-20
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1317630912

The Routledge Handbook of Transportation offers a current and comprehensive survey of transportation planning and engineering research. It provides a step-by-step introduction to research related to traffic engineering and control, transportation planning, and performance measurement and evaluation of transportation alternatives. The Handbook of Transportation demonstrates models and methods for predicting travel and freight demand, planning future transportation networks, and developing traffic control systems. Readers will learn how to use various engineering concepts and approaches to make future transportation safer, more efficient, and more sustainable. Edited by Dušan Teodorović and featuring 29 chapters from more than 50 leading global experts, with more than 200 illustrations, the Routledge Handbook of Transportation is designed as an invaluable resource for professionals and students in transportation planning and engineering.

Applications of Location Analysis

Applications of Location Analysis
Author: H. A. Eiselt
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2015-09-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3319202820

This book, companion to Foundations of Location Analysis (Springer, 2011), highlights some of the applications of location analysis within the spheres of businesses, those that deal with public services and applications that deal with law enforcement and first responders. While the Foundations book reviewed the theory and first contributions, this book describes how different location techniques have been used to solve real problems. Since many real problems comprise multiple objectives, in this book there is more presence of tools from multicriteria decision making and multiple-objective optimization. The section on business applications looks at such problems as locating bank branches, the potential location of a logistics park, sustainable forest management and layout problems in a hospital, a much more difficult type of problem than mere location problems. The section on public services presents chapters on the design of habitats for wildlife, control of forest fires, the location of intelligent sensors along highways for timely emergency response, locating breast cancer screening centers, an economic analysis for the locations of post offices and school location. The final section of the book includes chapters on the well-known problem of locating fire stations, a model for the location of sensors for travel time information, the problem of police districting, locations of jails, location of Coast Guard vessels and finally, a survey of military applications of location analysis throughout different periods of recent history.

Distributed Computing and Intelligent Technology

Distributed Computing and Intelligent Technology
Author: Anisur Rahaman Molla
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2023-01-08
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3031248481

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Intelligent Technology, ICDCIT 2023, which was held in Bhubaneswar, India, in January 2023. The 20 full papers and 9 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Invited Talks; Distributed Computing; Intelligent Technology.

Systems of Cities and Facility Location

Systems of Cities and Facility Location
Author: P. Hansen
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2013-09-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136473599

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Operations Research for Military Organizations

Operations Research for Military Organizations
Author: Tozan, Hakan
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2018-07-27
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1522555145

The study of operations research arose during World War II to enhance the effectiveness of weapons and equipment used on the battlefield. Since then, operations research techniques have also been used to solve several sophisticated and complex defense-related problems. Operations Research for Military Organizations is a critical scholarly resource that examines the issues that have an impact on aspects of contemporary quantitative applications of operations research methods in the military. It also addresses innovative applications, techniques, and methodologies to assist in solving defense and military-related problems. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as combat planning, tactical decision aids, and weapon system simulations, this book is geared towards defense contractors, military consultants, military personnel, policy makers, and government departments seeking current research on defense methodologies.

Production and Operations Analysis

Production and Operations Analysis
Author: Susmita Bandyopadhyay
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 590
Release: 2019-12-18
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1351113658

The aim of this book is to cover various aspects of the Production and Operations Analysis. Apart from the introduction to basic understanding of each topic, the book will also provide insights to various conventional techniques as well as, various other mathematical and nature-based techniques extracted from the existing literature. Concepts like smart factories, intelligent manufacturing, and various techniques of manufacturing will also be included. Various types of numerical examples will also be presented in each chapter and the descriptions will be done in lucid style with figures, point-wise descriptions, tables, pictures to facilitate easy understanding of the subject.

Handbook of OR/MS Models in Hazardous Materials Transportation

Handbook of OR/MS Models in Hazardous Materials Transportation
Author: Rajan Batta
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2013-06-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1461467942

The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation defines hazardous materials (hazmat) as a substance or material capable of posing an unreasonable risk to health, safety, or property when transported in commerce. Hazmat accidents can result in significant impact to the population (death, injuries) and damage to the environment (destroyed or damaged buildings and infrastructure). Further, hazmat, especially explosive materials, can potentially be used by terrorists to attack civilians or to destroy critical infrastructure. This handbook provides models from Operations Research and Management Science that study various activities involving hazmat transportation: risk assessment, route planning, location decisions, evacuation planning, and emergency planning for terrorist attacks. There are two important research areas in hazmat transportation that are widely studied in the literature: risk assessment and shipment planning. In the risk assessment area, important issues include measurement of accident probabilities and consequences in hazmat transport. Example works in the risk assessment area include modeling risk probability distribution over given areas, considering hazmat types and transport modes, and environmental conditions. The first half of this handbook covers the two fields of risk assessment and shipment planning, while the second half of this handbook provides useful models and insights on other important issues including location problems for undesirable facilities, network interdiction, terrorist attack, and evacuation.