This book is a volume in honor of Zvi Drezner's 75th birthday. Professor Drezner is a leading scholar in location science. He received his BSc degree in Mathematics in 1965 and his PhD. in Computer Science ten years later, both from the Technion in Haifa, Israel. Since 1978 he has published in...

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...

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...