Part I: Sources of uncertainty, risk, and imprecision -- Sources of Uncertainty in Location Analysis -- Risk, hazard and exposure time in Hazmat Location and Routing -- Customer related uncertainties in Facility Location Problems -- Part II: Models that protect against acts of nature, attackers,...

Chapter 1. My Career and Contributions -- Chapter 2. Understanding the Weber Location Paradigm -- Chapter 3. A general framework for local search applied to the continuous p-median problem -- Chapter 4. Big Triangle Small Triangle Method for the Weber Problem on the Sphere -- Chapter 5. Integer...

This book is a volume in honor of Zvi Drezner's 75th birthday. Professor Drezner is a leading scholar in location science. He received his BSc degree in Mathematics in 1965 and his PhD. in Computer Science ten years later, both from the Technion in Haifa, Israel. Since 1978 he has published in...

Location analysis has matured from an area of theoretical inquiry that was designed to explain observed phenomena to a vibrant field which can be and has been used to locate items as diverse as landfills, fast food outlets, gas stations, as well as politicians and products in issue and feature...