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,...

The effect of regulation on a dominant firm to protect fringe firms in a local market -- Corporate taxation and regional economic development in Japan: A panel analysis of prefectural-level data -- Economies of scale and culmulative causation -- Firms' human resource management for local economy...

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...

This book deals with location problems. Location problems establish a set of facilities (resources) to minimize the cost of satisfying a set of demands (customers) with respect to a set of constraints. There are four components that describe location problems: customers, who are assumed to be...