The gravity p-median model

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 179, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1239-1251

  Drezner, Tammy ^a   Drezner, Zvi ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gravity; Huff; Location allocation; p Median

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; HEURISTIC METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

LOCATION ALLOCATION; UTILITY FUNCTIONS;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 33845949515     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2005.04.054     Document Type: Article

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