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 …

This document presents a broad review of facility location and location science research.
The goal of this report is not to provide an exhaustive list of location science topics (an …

Following a brief taxonomy of the broad field of facility location modeling, this paper provides
an annotated bibliography of recent papers in two branches of discrete location theory and …

Abstract The Set Covering Problem (SCP) is a main model for several important
applications, including crew scheduling in railway and mass-transit companies. In this …

We present a Lagrangian-based heuristic for the well-known Set Covering Problem (SCP).
The algorithm was initially designed for solving very large scale SCP instances, involving up …

Publisher Summary Railway transportation can be split into passenger transportation and
cargo transportation. This chapter discusses the European situation, where the major part of …

In this paper, we propose models and solution approaches for determining the facility
locations of medical supplies in response to large-scale emergencies. We address the …

Purpose–Terrorist attacks, natural disasters, and regional power outages from the past
several years have all highlighted the low levels of disaster preparedness that exist at many …

Crew management is concerned with building the work schedules of crews needed to cover
a planned timetable. This is a well-known problem in Operations Research and has been …

The Capacitated p-median problem (CPMP) seeks to solve the optimal location of p
facilities, considering distances and capacities for the service to be given by each median. In …