While the traditional facility location problem considers exogenous demand, in some
applications, locations of facilities could affect the willingness of customers to use certain …

In this paper, we consider a decision-maker who wants to determine a subset of locations
from a given set of candidate sites to open facilities and accordingly assign customer …

Improving the reliability of factories and suppliers through appropriate allocation of
redundancy components is crucial in responding to customer demand. However, if …

Closed-loop supply chains (CLSCs) have received considerable attention because of
various economic and regulatory factors. A CLSC is characterized by more complicated …

Facility location problems (FLP) are often solved as uncapacitated facility location (UFL)
instances. Also, typical solution approaches in the literature assume that the established …

Horizontal cooperation in logistics has gathered momentum in the last decade as a way to
reach economic as well as environmental benefits. In the literature, these benefits are most …

This research addresses the location problem of congested facilities, assuming service
interruptions and customer withdrawals. Service interruptions can occur as a result of events …

Redundancy aspects related to covering facility location problems are of extreme
importance for many applications, in particular those regarding critical services. For …

In this paper, we consider a facility location problem where customer demand constitutes
considerable uncertainty, and where complete information on the distribution of the …

Parameter uncertainty is common to several optimization problems, especially in health care
where patients' conditions and service times are highly uncertain. Moreover, in Home Health …