This article reviews the interdisciplinary research field of spatial optimization for land
acquisition problems. We start with a theoretical framework to identify three categories of …

Determining the positions of facilities, and allocating demands to them, is a vitally important
problem. Location-allocation problems are optimization NP-hard procedures. This article …

Spatial optimization deals with a variety of problems involved in arranging, operating, and
designing systems of activities across a spatial domain. It is comprised of both models and …

In the last two decades, a steady stream of research has been devoted to studying various
computational aspects of the ordered k-median problem, which subsumes traditional facility …

The hub location problem has been widely used in analyzing hub-and-spoke systems. The
basic assumption is that a large number of demands exist to travel from origins to …

Location-allocation modeling is an important area of research in spatial optimization and
GIScience. A large number of analytical models for location-allocation analysis have been …

Multiobjective combinatorial optimization deals with problems considering more than one
viewpoint or scenario. The problem of aggregating multiple criteria to obtain a globalizing …

The placement of facilities according to spatial and/or geographic requirements is a popular
problem within the domain of location science. Objectives that are typically considered in …

Facility dispersion problems involve placing a number of facilities as far apart from each
other as possible. Four different criteria of facility dispersal have been proposed in the …

The concept of environmental sustainable development is in fact a response to the
environmental and social damaging effects. Urban sustainable development is one of the …