Location Theory - Nickel, Stefan

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Résumé :
Although modern location theory is now more than 90 years old, the focus of researchers in this area has been mainly problem oriented. However, a common theory, which keeps the essential characteristics of classical location models, is still missing. This monograph addresses this issue. A flexible location problem called the Ordered Median Problem (OMP) is introduced. For all three main subareas of location theory (continuous, network and discrete location) structural properties of the OMP are presented and solution approaches provided. Numerous illustrations and examples help the reader to become familiar with this new location model. By using OMP classical results of location theory can be reproved in a more general and sometimes even simpler way. Algorithms enable the reader to solve very flexible location models with a single implementation. In addition, the code of some algorithms is available for download.

Biographie:
Prof. Dr. Stefan Nickel leitet am Karlsruher Institut f?r Technologie den Lehrstuhl f?r Diskrete Optimierung und Logistik im Institut f?r Operations Research. Er ist Direktor des Forschungszentrums Informatik sowie Direktor des Karlsruhe Service Research Institute. Prof. Dr. Claudius Steinhardt ist an der Universit?t der Bundeswehr M?nchen Inhaber des Lehrstuhls f?r Allgemeine Betriebswirtschaftslehre, insbesondere Business Analytics und Management Science. Dr. Hans Schlenker arbeitete viele Jahre im technischen Vertrieb der IBM Deutschland GmbH und ist heute als Data Scientist bei der Hoffmann Group in M?nchen t?tig. Dr. Wolfgang Burkart ist Akademischer Rat an der Universit?t Augsburg und arbeitet am Lehrstuhl f?r Analytics & Optimization.Dr. Melanie Reuter-Oppermann ist an der Technischen Universit?t Darmstadt im Fachgebiet Wirtschaftsinformatik - Software & Digital Business t?tig.