Facility Location: Applications and Theory

by Zvi Drezner (Editor), Horst W. Hamacher (Editor)

The book covers both theory and applications of locational analysis (LocAn). The reader will see the power of LocAn models in various real-world contexts, varying from communication design to robotics and mail delivery. It is divided into two parts. The first part contains an overview of some of the LocAn methodologies. The second part describes in thorough detail some selected applications. The text provides researchers with an excellent and well thought-out review of available location models.

476 pages, Paperback

First published June 24, 2004

Reviews

[Louis · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a collection of chapters. The first chapters provide an overview of the theory, the later chapters go in depth into special topics and applications. I used this as a textbook. Some issues: It can be very dense, as it is covering a lot of ground. Some chapters cover material that take a whole textbook. My students complained that there were not enough examples. For homeworks and exams I made up problems (it helped that I have other books for source material, and a bit of imagination.)

I found it useful and my students who actually worked in the industries covered in the application chapters found them to be both interesting and immediately useful (which is high praise for a technical text). It fails to get that fifth star because it is dense (and a few typos)

[Nina]

this book is once of the best book to be reference for researcher