This paper examines the effects of hospital closures on geographical access by potential patients, using data from four southeastern U.S. states. Using optimization models designed to minimize the adverse effects of hospital closures, extensive computations are performed and the results are...

This paper examines the effects of hospital closures on geographical access by potential patients, using data from four southeastern U.S. states. Using optimization models designed to minimize the adverse effects of hospital closures, extensive computations are performed and the results are...

Location represents one of the five integrative areas of a supply chain management that refers to situating of facilit ies within a given space. Facilit ies of each supply chain member differ in the role one plays in supply chain and their objective function. As such, facility location problem...

We consider the single-facility location problem with mixed norms, i.e. the problem of minimizing the sum of the distances from a point to a set of fixed points in R, where each distance can be measured according to a different p-norm.We show how this problem can be expressed into a structured...

This paper presents a very large scale neighborhood (VLSN) search algorithm for the capacitated facility location problem with single-source constraints. The neigh- borhood structures are induced by customer multi-exchanges and by facility moves. We consider both single-customer multi-exchanges,...

The aim of the article is a systemic summarization of processes, ways and main determinants influencing the relation between costs and benefits connected with the CR accession to the European Union. Author attempts to find out and to classify moments on macroeconomic both microeconomic level...