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 in Practice -- Location Analysis in Banking: A New Methodology and Application for a Turkish Bank -- Location Modeling for Logistics Parks -- An Introduction to Industrial Forestry from a Location Perspective -- Layout Planning Problems in Health Care -- Modeling the Potential...

"The book covers the standard models and techniques used in decision making in organizations. The main emphasis of the book is on modeling business-related scenarios and the generation of decision alternatives. Fully solved examples from many areas are used to illustrate the main concepts...

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Definitions and Symbols -- 0. Summary of Matrix Algebra and Allied Topics -- 1. Linear Programming -- 2. Integer Programming -- 3. Theory of Graphs -- 4. Planning Networks -- 5. Game Theory -- 6. Dynamic Programming -- 7. Queueing Models -- 8. Nonlinear...