In this study, we review the covering problems in facility location. Here, besides a number of
reviews on covering problems, a comprehensive review of models, solutions and …

Facility location decisions play a critical role in the strategic design of supply chain networks.
In this paper, a literature review of facility location models in the context of supply chain …

This chapter introduces modern Location Science. It traces the roots of the area and
describes the path leading to the full establishment of this research field. It identifies several …

This paper provides a review on recent efforts and development in multi-criteria location
problems in three categories including bi-objective, multi-objective and multi-attribute …

This book deals with location problems. Location problems establish a set of facilities
(resources) to minimize the cost of satisfying a set of demands (customers) with respect to a …

In order to modify the current facility or develop a new facility, the dynamics of facility location
problems (FLPs) ought to be taken into account so as to efficiently deal with changing …

The paper presents the first stage of the MCDM/A-based two-stage procedure resulting in
the selection of the most desirable location of the logistics centre. In the first stage, the macro …

Optimization models related to designing and operating complex systems are mainly
focused on some efficiency metrics such as response time, queue length, throughput, and …

Operations Research (OR) began as an interdisciplinary activity to solve complex military
problems during World War II. Utilizing principles from mathematics, engineering, business …

This paper provides a mathematical optimization framework to incorporate fairness
measures from the facilities' perspective to discrete and continuous maximal covering …