Single-Facility Location Problems with Barriers

• Main Author: Klamroth, Kathrin (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2002.
• Series: Springer Series in Operations Research,
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Mathematical optimization.; Management science.; Industrial organization.; Optimization.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Operations Research, Management Science.; Industrial Organization.

Everyday life bears a multitude of location problems and locational de- sions. These may be as simple as how best to place a pencil on a desk without having to reach too far and still keeping the work space clear, up to the question of where to place the next out of hundreds of thousands of transist...

Table of Contents:

• and General Results
• Measuring Distances
• Shortest Paths in the Presence of Barriers
• Location Problems with Barriers: Basic Concepts and Literature Review
• Bounds for Location Problems with Barriers
• Solution Methods for Specially Shaped Barriers
• Planar Location Problems with Polyhedral Barriers
• Location Problems with a Circular Barrier
• Weber Problems with a Line Barrier
• Solution Methods for Special Distance and Objective Functions
• Weber Problems with Block Norms
• Center Problems with the Manhattan Metric
• Multicriteria Location Problems with Polyhedral Barriers
• Application
• Location with Barriers Put to Work in Practice.