A multicriteria approach to global facility location-allocation problem

International Journal of Information and Management Sciences

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1-19

  Badri, Masood A ^a  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Goal Programming; Location Allocation Problem; Multicriteria Approach

Indexed keywords

FACILITIES; FOREIGN TRADE;

FOREIGN INVESTMENT; GOAL PROGRAMMING; LOCATION PROBLEM; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS;

LOCATION;

EID: 0030370098     PISSN: 10171819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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