Complexity factors and intuition-based methods for facility network design

Decision Sciences

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 583-614

  Swink, Morgan ^a   Robinson Jr , E Powell ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision support systems; Facility location; Logistics planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031313406     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.1997.tb01323.x     Document Type: Article

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