The spatial distribution of current telecommunication infrastructures has led to the inequality of broadband access in residential areas. Addressing such inequality requires the consideration of many criteria that are often conflicting. In this paper, we focus on two important factors using a...

Due to strong local competition in the broadband access market, strategic locational planning is very important for service providers. In this paper, we explore locational equilibria in a competitive broadband market under several situations: with and without customer loyalty and under different...

Competitive location modeling deals with a strategic spatial decision which seeks to identify optimal locations for new facilities among existing competing facilities. The capture of customers by a new facility essentially depends on customer-choice behaviors. In this paper, we introduce a...

Political redistricting is a process used to redraw political boundaries based on a number of criteria that include population equality, minority representation, contiguity, and compactness. Redistricting plans can be difficult to draw manually and since the 1970s the use of computers in the...

The <i>p</i>-median problem is difficult to solve and many heuristic methods have been developed. This paper discusses a new hybridization approach in which existing heuristics are used as ʻexperts’ in a problem-solving team where they cooperate by sharing their solutions with each other. This...

Multiobjective site-search problems are a class of decision problems that have geographical components and multiple, often conflicting, objectives; this kind of problem is often encountered and is technically difficult to solve. In this paper we describe an evolutionary algorithm (EA) based...