This paper investigates the emergence of retail clusters on supply chains comprised of suppliers, retailers, and consumers. An agent-based model is employed to study retail location choice in a market of homogeneous goods and a market of complementary goods. On a circle comprised of discrete...

The paper presents continuous and both capacitated/uncapacitated location-allocation problem (LAP) concerning location of distribution centers (DCs) and their allocation to groups of customers (stores) served by a retail physical distribution network. The primary purpose is to develop a model of...