Solving continuous location-districting problems with Voronoi diagrams

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 40-59

  Novaes, Antonio G N ^a   Souza de Cursi, J E ^b   da Silva, Arinei C L ^c   Souza, João C ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITÉ ET INSA DE ROUEN   (France)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Facility location; Logistics districting; Transportation districting; Voronoi diagrams

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FACILITIES; FUNCTION EVALUATION; GRAPHIC METHODS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; NUMERICAL METHODS; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION;

APPROXIMATION MODELS; BALANCE (WEIGHTING); CONTINUOUS LOCATIONS; ELSEVIER (CO); FACILITY LOCATION PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING MODELS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTION (OF); SPATIAL DENSITIES; VORONOI DIAGRAMS;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS;

EID: 44849105490     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2007.07.004     Document Type: Article

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