Location set covering for waste resource recycling centers in Taiwan

Resources, Conservation and Recycling

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 979-985

  Ye, Lin ^a   Ye, Chunming ^a   Chuang, Yi Fei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHANGHAI FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b MING CHUAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Heuristic algorithms; Location set covering problems; P median; Resource recycling; Reverse logistic

Indexed keywords

EXACT SOLUTION; INTEGRATED MODELS; LAND RESOURCES; P-MEDIAN; RESOURCE RECYCLING; REVERSE LOGISTICS; SET COVERINGS; SET OPERATION; TRANSPORTATION DISTANCE; WASTE RESOURCES;

FACTORY AUTOMATION; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

RECYCLING;

ALGORITHM; HEURISTICS; NUMERICAL METHOD; RECYCLING; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE TREATMENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LAND USE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; RECYCLING; STRATEGIC PLANNING; TAIWAN; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

TAIWAN;

EID: 79960967711     PISSN: 09213449     EISSN: 18790658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2011.05.007     Document Type: Article

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