MCDM location problems

International Series in Operations Research and Management Science

Volumn 78, Issue , 2005, Pages 761-795

  Nickel, Stefan ^a,b   Puerto, Justo ^c   Rodríguez Chía, Antonio M ^d  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR INDUSTRIAL MATHEMATICS ITWM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CÁDIZ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Locational analysis; Multicriteria location problems; Multiobjective location problems; Point objective location problems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84955156379     PISSN: 08848289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/0-387-23081-5_19     Document Type: Chapter

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