Article ID: | iaor201527198 |
Volume: | 234 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 819 |
End Page Number: | 829 |
Publication Date: | May 2014 |
Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
Authors: | Batta Rajan, Lejeune Miguel, Prasad Srinivas |
Keywords: | NP-complete, p-median problem, public policy |
From a practical perspective, the paper demonstrates that the appropriate use of dispersion, population, and equity criteria can lead to fairly good solutions with respect to the