Location Theory : A Unified Approach
- Author
- Stefan Nickel, Justo Puerto Albandoz
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Publisher
- Springer
- Language
- English
- Document Type
- Book
- Faculty / Subject Heading
- Business Administration
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Although modern location theory is now more than 90 years old, the focus of researchers in this area has been mainly problem oriented. However, a common theory, which keeps the essential characteristics of classical location models, is still missing. This monograph addresses this issue. A flexible location problem called the Ordered Median Problem (OMP) is introduced. For all three main subareas of location theory (continuous, network and discrete location) structural properties of the OMP are presented and solution approaches provided. Numerous illustrations and examples help the reader to become familiar with this new location model.
Keywords: Business and Economics / Computational Geometry / Location Analysis / Logistics / Mathematical Programming / Operations Research / Algorithms / Linear Optimization
