The Maximum Capture problem (MAXCAP) is a decision model that addresses the issue of location in a competitive environment. This paper presents a new approach to determine which store?s attributes (other than distance) should be included in the new Market Capture Models and how they ought to be...

The paper presents a new model based on the basic Maximum Capture model, MAXCAP. The New Chance-Constrained Maximum Capture model introduces a stochastic threshold constraint, which recognises the fact that a facility can be open only if a minimum level of demand is captured. A metaheuristic...

In this paper we address the issue of locating hierarchical facilities in the presence of congestion. Two hierarchical models are presented, where requests are attended first by lower level servers, and then some of the served customers are referred to higher level servers. In the first model,...

Previous emergency service covering models consider all the calls to be of the same importance and impose the same waiting time constraints independently of the service's priority. This type of constraint is clearly inappropriate in many contexts. For example, in urban medical emergency...