Abstract This paper investigates a Multi-Stage Stochastic Districting Problem (MSSDP). The goal is to devise a districting plan (i.e., clusters of Territorial Units—TUs) accounting for uncertain parameters changing over a discrete multi-period planning horizon. The problem is cast as a...

Introduction -- Principles and Background -- Discrete Facility Location Problems -- Decision Making under Uncertainty: Ingredients for Modeling -- Optimization under Uncertainty -- Modeling Paradigms and Solution Techniques -- Robust Facility Location -- Stochastic Facility Location -- Facility...

Currently, advanced production systems enable fast and flexible capacity planning and production scheduling connected to the existing enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. In this paper, a comprehensive optimization problem is developed for a composite of an assembly line balancing problem...