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II. Advanced concepts
This part covers models and concepts that aim at broadening and extending the
basic knowledge presented in Part
I
, thus providing the reader with important
tools to better understand and solve real-world location problems. The chapters
in this part are the following:
Chapter
7
: Location of dimensional facilities in a continuous space;
Chapter
8
: Facility location under uncertainty;
Chapter
9
: Location problems with multiple criteria;
Chapter
10
: Ordered median location problems;
Chapter
11
: Multi-period facility location;
Chapter
12
: Hub location problems;
Chapter
13
: The quadratic assignment problem;
Chapter
14
: Competitive location;
Chapter
15
: Location-routing and location-arc routing;
Chapter
16
: Location and logistics;
Chapter
17
: Stochastic location models with congestion;
Chapter
18
: Aggregation in location.
III. Applications
The links between Location Science and other areas are the focus of the third
part. By presenting a wide range of applications, it is possible not only to
understand the role of facility location in such areas, but also to show how
to handle realistic location problems. These applications include:
Chapter
19
: Location and GIS;
Chapter
20
: Location problems in telecommunications;
Chapter
21
: Location problems in healthcare;
Chapter
22
: The design of rapid transit networks;
Chapter
23
: Districting problems;
Chapter
24
: Location problems under disaster events.
1.5
How to Use This Topic
Over the past decades, problems, models, properties, and techniques from Location
Science have been increasingly taught to students enrolled in different programs. We
have identified six types of post-graduate curricula having a strong location content:
business, computer science, economics, engineering, geography and mathematics.
