A Probabilistic Minimax Location Problem on the Plane

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 122, Issue 1-4, 2003, Pages 59-70

  Berman, Oded ^a   Wang, Jiamin ^a   Drezner, Zvi ^b   Wesolowsky, George O ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Minimax facility location; Planar location; Probabilistic facility location

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344540264     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026134121255     Document Type: Article

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