A firm wants to locate several multi-server facilities in a region where there is already a competitor operating. We propose a model for locating these facilities in such a way as to maximize market capture by the entering ...

We developed an efficient heuristic to solve a joint location-distribution-inventory model for a three layered supply chain. A firm must locate distribution centers to supply a commodity to spatially distributed retailers ...

In many production processes, a key material is prepared and then transformed into different final products. The lot sizing decisions concern not only the production of final products, but also that of material preparation ...

This paper surveys the history of location models. Starting with the earliest contributions in mathematics, it follows the journey of the topic through its reincarnations in geography and finally in operations research. ...

We study problems that integrate buy-at-bulk network design into the classical (connected) facility location problem. In such problems, we need to open facilities, build a routing network, and route every client demand to ...

In this paper, we propose a simultaneous approach to incorporate inventory control decisions-such as economic order quantity and safety stock decisions-into typical facility location models, which are used to solve the ...

We study a prize-collecting version of the uncapacitated facility location problem and of the p-median problem. We say that the uncapacitated facility location polytope has the intersection property if adding the extra ...