Article ID: | iaor20062437 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 34 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 264 |
End Page Number: | 268 |
Publication Date: | May 2006 |
Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
Authors: | Foul Abdelaziz |
Keywords: | programming: probabilistic, demand |
Center problems or minimax facility location problems are among the most active research areas in location theory. In this paper, we find the best unique location for a facility in the plane such that the maximum expected weighted distance to all random demand points is minimized.