Constrained location of competitive facilities in the plane

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 359-378

  McGarvey, Ronald G ^a   Cavalier, Tom M ^b  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Competitive facility location; Elastic demand; Forbidden regions; Nonconvex optimization; Penalty functions

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BUDGET CONTROL; COMPETITION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; LOCATION; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

COMPETITIVE FACILITY LOCATION; ELASTIC DEMAND; FORBIDDEN REGIONS; NONCONVEX OPTIMIZATION; PENALTY FUNCTIONS;

INDUSTRIAL PLANTS;

EID: 4544376358     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0548(03)00241-7     Document Type: Article

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