Robust vertex p-center model for locating urgent relief distribution centers

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2128-2137

  Lu, Chung Cheng ^a,c   Sheu, Jiuh Biing ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Data uncertainty; Emergency logistics; Facility location; Robust optimization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENT; DATA UNCERTAINTY; EMERGENCY LOGISTICS; FACILITY LOCATIONS; RELIEF DISTRIBUTION; ROBUST OPTIMIZATION; TWO-STAGE STOCHASTIC MODELS; WORST CASE SCENARIO;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SIMULATED ANNEALING; TRAVEL TIME; WAREHOUSES;

LOCATION;

EID: 84876182793     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2013.02.019     Document Type: Article

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