Optimal location of a single facility with circular demand areas

Computers and Mathematics with Applications

Volumn 41, Issue 7-8, 2001, Pages 1049-1061

  Chen, R ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CIRCULAR DEMAND AREAS; EUCLIDEAN SPACE; MINIMUM LOCATION PROBLEM;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

EID: 0035313508     PISSN: 08981221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0898-1221(00)00339-4     Document Type: Article

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