Analysis of centroid aggregation for the Euclidean distance p -median problem

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 147-168

  Zhao, Peiwu ^a   Batta, Rajan ^b  

^a ESRI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation analysis; Location

Indexed keywords

DECISION THEORY; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CENTROID AGGREGATION ANALYSIS; EUCLIDEAN DISTANCE P-MEDIAN LOCATION; MULTI-FACILITY LOCATION;

SITE SELECTION;

EID: 0033078760     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-2217(98)00010-1     Document Type: Article

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