This is the first book in the field that uses the power of the basic models and principles to provide students and managers with an 'intuitive understanding' of operations management. The book touches on nine fundamental models and principles, and outlines the key insights behind each one. Some...

The discussion of the fundamental p-center and p-median problems in Part I of this paper provides the basis for the work surveyed in Part II. Part II deals with the minimax and minisum location problems with mutual communication, location problems involving multiple objectives, the distance...

Network location problems occur when new facilities are to be located on a network. The network of interest may be a road network, an air transport network, a river network, or a network of shipping lanes. For a given network location problem, the new facilities are often idealized as points,...

The problem considered in this paper is to find a layout of a given number of identical facilities so that the total (or average) rectilinear distance between facilities is minimized. The potential locations for the facilities are lattice points in the plane, which are points whose coordinates...

Many resource-allocation problems in manufacturing and service operations require selecting integer-valued levels for various activities that consume "nondecreasing amounts" of limited resources. System productivity, to be maximized, is limited by the least productive (bottleneck) activity. We...