Witnessing the rapid progress and accelerated commercialization made in recent years for introduction of air taxi services near future across metropolitan cities, our research focuses on one most important consideration such services, i.e., infrastructure planning (also known as skyports). We consider design skyport locations taxis accessing airports, where we present location problem a modifie...

The facility location problem described in this paper comes from an industrial application in the slaughterhouse industry of Norway. Investigations show that the slaughterhouse industry experiences economies of scale in the production facilities. We examine a location-allocation problem focusing on the location of slaughterhouses, their size and the allocation of animals in the different farmin...

This paper investigates a capacitated planar location-allocation problem with facility fixed cost. A zonebased fixed cost which consists of production and installation costs is considered. A nonlinear and mixed integer formulation is first presented. A powerful three stage Cross Entropy meta-heuristic with novel density functions is proposed. In the first stage a covering location problem provi...

Power constitutes an essential controllable resource for the improvement of the radio link performance in WCDMA-based cellular networks. In addition, complementary to traditional services, location based services (LBS) have emerged as a growing area for mobile service providers bringing in the foreground the potential for a locationaware resource management. To this effect, this paper addresses...

In this survey, we examine an important class of facility location problems known as the multisource Weber problem (also referred to as the continuous location-allocation problem). We also show how recent advances in the use of metaheuristic rules have significantly improved the ability to solve problems of this type. The new solution methods are discussed for both the well known multisource W...

Facility location-allocation (FLA) problem, which has been proved to be a valuable method in siting service facility, is widely used in real life, such as emergency service systems, telecommunication networks, public services, etc. However, in real-world situations, the decision maker often lack the information about the customers’ demands, which leads to the FLA problem in uncertain environmen...