Efficient solution of a class of location-allocation problems with stochastic demand and congestion

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 48, Issue , 2014, Pages 20-30

  Vidyarthi, Navneet ^a   Jayaswal, Sachin ^b  

^a John Molson School of Business   (Canada)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT   (India)

Author keywords

Congestion; Constraint generation method; Location allocation; Queueing; Service system design; Stochastic demand

Indexed keywords

INTEGER PROGRAMMING; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; LOCATION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; QUEUEING NETWORKS; QUEUEING THEORY; REFUSE COLLECTION; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; SUPPLY CHAINS;

CONGESTION; CONSTRAINT GENERATION; LOCATION ALLOCATION; QUEUEING; SERVICE SYSTEM DESIGNS; STOCHASTIC DEMAND;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 84897429930     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2014.02.014     Document Type: Article

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