Application of decision analysis techniques to the Weber facility location problem

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 69-79

  Drezner, Zvi ^a,c   Guyse, Jeffery ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; FACILITIES; LOCATION; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY;

COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENTS; DECISION ANALYSIS; EXPECTED VALUE RULE; MINIMAX REGRET; OPTIMISTIC RULE; PESSIMISTIC RULE; SQUARED EUCLIDEAN DISTANCE; WEBER FACILITY LOCATION;

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 0032641586     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-2217(98)00084-8     Document Type: Article

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