THE OBJECTIVES AND CHARACTERISTICS OF FACILITY LOCATION PROBLEMS: A LITERATURE REVIEW

摘要：

Facility location decision is one of the most important strategic decisions for nearly every private and public companies. Macroeconomic, political, strategic, technological, infrastructure, competitive and logistical and operational factors make this decision full of complexity and challenge. Thus, hundreds and thousands of investigators have been attracted to focus on both algorithms and formulations in this field. We review here the many facets of this exciting field through reference to both seminal works and current reviews. In this paper, we distinguish the literature by their characteristics: objectives, space, discrete or continuous, deterministic or stochastic, static or dynamic, single-stage or multi-stage, single-product or multi-product, etc.

关键词： Facility Location Location Problem Siting Models Strategic Planning

作者: Zhang Zhongwen Zhang Du Chen Xu

作者单位: School of Management, UESTC, Chengdu, China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2007年技术创新、风险管理暨供应链管理国际研讨会

会议地点: 北京

会议语种:英文

在线出版日期: 2007-11-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）