Facility Location: Concepts, Models, Algorithms and Case Studies

Marzie Zarinbal (auth.), Reza Zanjirani Farahani, Masoud Hekmatfar (eds.)9783790821505, 3790821500

This book deals with location problems. 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. 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 geographical and chronological distances between customers and facilities. This book describes these parts in each specific location model. Location models are used in a variety of applications such as 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 applications exemplified by real-world cases for each particular model. The relationship between location problems and other areas such as supply chains is also considered here.

Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages i-viii
Distance Functions in Location Problems….Pages 5-17
An Overview of Complexity Theory….Pages 19-36
Single Facility Location Problem….Pages 37-68
Multifacility Location Problem….Pages 69-92
Location Allocation Problem….Pages 93-109
Quadratic Assignment Problem….Pages 111-143
Covering Problem….Pages 145-176
Median Location Problem….Pages 177-191
Center Problem….Pages 193-217
Hierarchical Location Problem….Pages 219-241
Hub Location Problem….Pages 243-270
Competitive Location Problem….Pages 271-294
Warehouse Location Problem….Pages 295-314
Obnoxious Facility Location….Pages 315-345
Dynamic Facility Location Problem….Pages 347-372
Multi-Criteria Location Problem….Pages 373-393
Location-Routing Problem….Pages 395-417
Storage System Layout….Pages 419-450
Location-Inventory Problem….Pages 451-471
Facility Location in Supply Cha….Pages 473-504
Classification of Location Models and Location Softwares….Pages 505-521
Demand Point Aggregation Analaysis for Location Models….Pages 523-534
Back Matter….Pages 535-549