Retail location choice with complementary goods: An agent-based model

Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering

Volumn 4 LNICST, Issue PART 1, 2009, Pages 175-187

  Huang, Arthur ^a   Levinson, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent based model; Clustering; Distribution pattern; Location choice

Indexed keywords

AGENT-BASED MODEL; CLUSTERING; DISCRETE LOCATION; DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS; HIERARCHICAL DISTRIBUTION; LOCATION CHOICE; NONCOOPERATIVE GAME; NUMBER OF CLUSTERS; PAPER MODELS; POWER LAW; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; SALES PRICES; SENSITIVITY TESTS; SUPPLY CHAIN NETWORK; TRAVEL DISTANCE; ZIP CODE;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; LOCATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PROFITABILITY; SALES; SUPPLY CHAINS;

DISTRIBUTION OF GOODS;

EID: 84859449728     PISSN: 18678211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02466-5_15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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