Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6894932 | European Journal of Operational Research | 2018 | 45 Pages |
Abstract
We conduct a comprehensive review on multi-level facility location problems which extend several classical facility location problems and can be regarded as a subclass within the well-established field of hierarchical facility location. We first present the main characteristics of these problems and discuss some similarities and differences with related areas. Based on the types of decisions involved in the optimization process, we identify three different categories of multi-level facility location problems. We present overviews of formulations, algorithms and applications, and we trace the historical development of the field.
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Authors
Camilo Ortiz-Astorquiza, Ivan Contreras, Gilbert Laporte,