Article ID: | iaor19931319 |
Country: | Switzerland |
Volume: | 40 |
Issue: | 1/4 |
Start Page Number: | 355 |
End Page Number: | 369 |
Publication Date: | Feb 1993 |
Journal: | Annals of Operations Research |
Authors: | Plastria Frank |
This paper introduces skewed norms, i.e. norms perturbed by a linear function, which are useful for modelling asymmetric distance measures. The Fermat-Weber problem with mixed skewed norms is then considered. Using subdifferential calculus the paper derives exact conditions for a destination point to be optimal, thereby correcting and completing some recent work on asymmetric distance location problems. Finally the classical dominance theorem is generalized to Fermat-Weber problems with a fixed skewed norm.