facility design

Sensitivity analysis of the optimal solutions to Huff-type competitive location and design problems

  • José Fernández
  • Blas Pelegrín
  • Frank Plastria
  • Boglárka Tóth
    • Categories Applications - OR and Management Sciences, Facility Planning and Design, Global Optimization Applications Tags , , , ,

    A chain wants to set up a single new facility in a planar market where similar facilities of competitors, and possibly of its own chain, are already present. Fixed demand points split their demand probabilistically over all facilities in the market proportionally with their attraction to each facility, determined by the different perceived qualities of … Read more

    Location and design of a competitive facility for profit maximisation

  • Emilio Carrizosa
  • Frank Plastria
    • Categories Facility Planning and Design, Nonlinear Optimization Tags , , , , ,

    A single facility has to be located in competition with fixed existing facilities of similar type. Demand is supposed to be concentrated at a finite number of points, and consumers patronise the facility to which they are attracted most. Attraction is expressed by some function of the quality of the facility and its distance to … Read more