Multiple facilities location in the plane using the gravity model

Geographical Analysis

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 391-406

  Drezner, Zvi ^a   Drezner, Tammy ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEURISTICS; LOCATION THEORY; MULTIOBJECTIVE PROGRAMMING; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 33748620284     PISSN: 00167363     EISSN: 15384632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-4632.2006.00692.x     Document Type: Article

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