This research develops a clustering-based location-allocation method to the Capacitated Facility Location Problem (CFLP), which provides an approximate optimal solution to determine the location and coverage of a set of facilities to serve the demands of a large number of locations. The allocation is constrained by facility capacities – different facilities may have different capacities and the...

The past four decades have witnessed an explosive growth in the field of networkbased facility location modeling. This is not at all surprising since location policy is one of the most profitable areas of applied systems analysis in regional science and ample theoretical and applied challenges are offered. Location-allocation models seek the location of facilities and/or services (e.g., schools...

The advent of the fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0) requires wireless networked solutions to connect machines. However, industrial environment is notorious for being averse communication, with traditional resource mechanisms prone errors because metallic objects. In this work, we propose exploit knowledge location derive context information and dynamically allocate resources in <itali...

Surveying programs of study at institutions higher learning throughout the world reveals that one natural disciplinary coupling is statistics and operations research, although these two specific disciplines currently lack an active synergistic research interface. Similarly, development spatial optimization has occurred in parallel nearly isolation. This paper seeks to alter this situation by in...