Facility location: concepts, models, algorithms and case studies

This book deals with location problems. They establish a set of facilities (resources) to minimize the cost of satisfying some set of demands (customers) with respect to some set of constraints. There are four components that describe location problems: customers, who are assumed to be already located at points or on routes, facilities that will be located, a space in which customers and facilities are located, and a metric that indicates distances or the time between customers and facilities. The book describes these parts in each specific locating model. Location models are used in a variety of applications like locating warehouses within a supply chain to minimize the average time to market, locating noxious material to maximize its distance to the public, etc. In this book readers can find these various applications in the form of real-worldcases for each particular model. The relationship between location problems and other areas like supply chains is also considered here.

• ISBN: 978-3-7908-2150-5
• Editorial: Physica
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 200
• Fecha Publicación: 01/03/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés