The aim of this paper is to propose a new location–allocation structure, in an effort to improve the operational shortcomings of the existing locations of primary health care centers. These shortcomings are mainly caused by the preference of patients to use local hospitals rather than health...

The representation of demand is a key issue which can significantly affect results in several demand covering models. In this paper we concentrate on the well known Maximal Coverage Location Problem and demonstrate that alternative representations of the demand space may lead to largely...

In this paper, we present a clustering heuristic for solving demand covering models where the objective is to determine locations for servers that optimally cover a given set of demand points. This heuristic is based on the concept of biclusters and processes the set of demand points as well as...