Foundations of Location Analysis
Location analysis has matured from an area of theoretical inquiry that was designed to explain observed phenomena to a vibrant field which can be and has been used to locate items as diverse as landfills, fast food outlets, gas stations, as well as politicians and products in issue and feature space...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer US
2011, 2011
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2011 |
| Series: | International Series in Operations Research & Management Science
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Pioneering Developments in Location Analysis
- Uncapacitated and Capacitated Facility Location Problems
- Median Problems in Networks
- Continuous Center Problems
- Discrete Center Problems
- Covering Problems
- Equilibria in Competitive Location Models
- Sequential Location Models
- Conditional Locational Problems on Networks and in the Plane
- The Location of Undesirable Facilities
- Stochastic Analysis in Location Research
- Hub Location Problems: The Location of Interacting Facilities
- Exact Solution of Two Location Problems via Branch-and-Branch
- Exploititng Structure: Location Problems on Trees and Treelike Graphs
- Heuristics for Location Problems
- The Weiszfeld Algorithm: Proof, Amendments, and Extensions
- Lagrangean Relaxation-Based Techniques in the Solution of Facility Location Problems
- Gravity Modeling and its Impact on Location Analysis
- Voronoi Diagrams and their Uses
- Central Places: The Theories of von Thünen, Christaller, and Lösch