A model and a heuristic are presented for finding the most effective location of public health centres providing non-vital services in competition with existing private health centres. While private centres provide only ...

We propose a locational model for public service centres when they compete with private centres. Customers may be captured by the centre offering shorter distance or lower waiting times. Both types of centres provide paid ...

Recently, the authors have formulated new models for the location of congested facilities, so to maximize population covered by service with short queues or waiting time. In this paper, we present an extension of these ...

Most models for location of immobile congested facilities assume exponentially distributed service time at the facilities. Although the resulting formulations are tractable, they do not adequately represent service time ...

Service Oriented Computing is a relevant paradigm that allows for building software solutions as it supports the creation of dynamic and agile applications. As a result of these benefits, applications based on the paradigm ...

Intelligent environments need interactions capable of detecting users and providing them with good-quality contextual information. In this sense we adapt technologies, identifying and locating people for supporting their ...

When dealing with the design of service networks, such as health and emergency medical services, banking or distributed ticket-selling services, the location of service centers has a strong influence on the congestion at ...