The facility and transfer points location problem

International Transactions in Operational Research

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 387-402

  Berman, Oded ^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

Descent approach; Facility and transfer points location problem; Heuristic algorithms; Multiple transfer points; Simulated annealing; Tabu search

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845192707     PISSN: 09696016     EISSN: 14753995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-3995.2005.00514.x     Document Type: Article

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