An analytical approach to the facility location and capacity acquisition problem under demand uncertainty

Journal of the Operational Research Society

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 397-405

  Dasci, A ^a,b   Laporte, G ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b HEC MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Distribution; Location

Indexed keywords

COSTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; OPTIMIZATION; OUTSOURCING; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CAPACITY PLANNING; DATA COLLECTION; OPERATION COSTS; REGIONAL DISTRIBUTION;

LOCATION;

EID: 15844378411     PISSN: 01605682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601826     Document Type: Article

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