Title :
Solving service facilities location problem with elastic demand and congest effect
Author :
Fang, Yang ; Bian, Yijie ; Xuefeng, Wang
Author_Institution :
Bus. Sch., Hohai Univ., Nanjing, China
Abstract :
This paper describes a model that seeks to simultaneously optimize the location of multiple-server, congestible facilities in order to realize company´s maximal total captured demand. The effective demand at each customer demand node is elastic to the travel cost to the facility, and to the congestion at that facility. We propose a greedy heuristic for the resulting problem formulation, and provide computational experiment.
Keywords :
facility location; transportation; congest effect; customer demand node; elastic demand; greedy heuristic; service facilities location problem; travel cost; Cost function; Elasticity; Heuristic algorithms; Mathematical model; Queueing analysis; Stochastic processes; competitive; congest effect; elastic demand; service facilities location;
Conference_Titel :
Service Systems and Service Management, 2009. ICSSSM '09. 6th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Xiamen
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3661-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3662-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICSSSM.2009.5174953