This volume introduces the latest popular methods for conducting business research. The
goal of each chapter author--a leading authority in a particular subject area--is to provide an …

Metaheuristics are the most exciting development in approximate optimization techniques of
the last two decades. They have had widespread successes in attacking a variety of difficult …

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 …

This paper gives a review on quantitative methods for microeconomic location planning
which can be subdivided into facility location and layout planning. Depending on different …

We give the first exact algorithmic study of facility location problems that deal with finding a
median for a continuum of demand points. In particular, we consider versions of the …

Traditionally most models in location theory describe situations where nearness to a facility
is valued. However many types offacilities have, at least partly, an undesirable effect on the …

This paper investigates a constrained form of the classical Weber problem. Specifically, we
consider the problem of locating a new facility in the presence of convex polygonal …

Growing transportation costs and tight delivery schedules mean that good located decisions
are more crucial than ever in the success or failure of industrial and puplic projects. The …

In this paper we consider the problem of locating one new facility with respect to a given set
of existing facilities in the plane and in the presence of convex polyhedral barriers. It is …

One of the classics in the field of Location Science is the book on the theory of industrial
location by Weber (1909). Weber used a simple construct comprised of a 3-point triangle to …