Location Analysis in Practice -- Location Analysis in Banking: A New Methodology and Application for a Turkish Bank -- Location Modeling for Logistics Parks -- An Introduction to Industrial Forestry from a Location Perspective -- Layout Planning Problems in Health Care -- Modeling the Potential...

Einleitung -- Internationale Unternehmungen -- Standortwahl von internationalen Industrieunternehmungen im Hinblick auf die strategische Zielsetzung -- Standortentscheidungsmodelle für international verteilte Industrieunternehmungen -- Entscheidungsmodell zur Bestimmung einer optimalen...

Theoretische und empirische Grundlagen -- Formulierung eines theoretischen Untersuchungsrahmens und Hypothesenableitung -- Empirische Untersuchung(en) -- Zusammenfassung und Implikationen -- Schlussbemerkungen.

This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date, and expert synthesis of location theory. What are the impacts of a firm`s geographic location on the locations of customers, suppliers, and competitors in a market economy? How, when, and why does this result in the clustering of firms in space?...

Practitioners in process industry have to increasingly adapt their global production networks to changes in the competitive environment. A majority of the supply network design models proposed by academia do not sufficiently capture the questions that have to be resolved. This book provides the...

This book provides a postgraduate audience the keys they need to understand and further develop a set of tools for the efficient computation of lower bounds and valid inequalities in integer programs and combinatorial optimization problems. After discussing the classical approaches described in...

This book opens the door to multiobjective optimization for students in fields such as engineering, management, economics and applied mathematics. It offers a comprehensive introduction to multiobjective optimization, with a primary emphasis on multiobjective linear programming and...

Although modern location theory is now more than 90 years old, the focus of researchers in this area has been mainly problem oriented. However, a common theory, which keeps the essential characteristics of classical location models, is still missing. This monograph addresses this issue. A...