Part I: Sources of uncertainty, risk, and imprecision -- Sources of Uncertainty in Location Analysis -- Risk, hazard and exposure time in Hazmat Location and Routing -- Customer related uncertainties in Facility Location Problems -- Part II: Models that protect against acts of nature, attackers,...

Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Single-objective optimization -- Chapter 2: Multicriteria decision making -- Chapter 3: Location models -- Chapter 4: Mathematical and geospatial tools -- Chapter 5: Locating a landfill with vector optimization -- Chapter 6: Using goal programming to locate...

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