Overview
- Honors the father of location analysis
- Chapter authors bring developments that began with Drezner’s research completely up to date
- Editors are two of the best known scholars in the field
Part of the book series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science (ISOR, volume 281)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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About this book
The chapters of the book have been chosen to provide readers with a large variety of topics in the field of location science, which normally are available only in many different specialist journals. In addition to easily approachable surveys, the contributions, written by the top specialists in the field, present the latest results as well.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Vladimir Marianov is a Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago, Chile. His research and teaching interests are in the areas of facility location and network design, as well as telecommunications. He has published over 75 papers on location of public services (schools, prisons, and landfills), location under congestion (bank branches, primary health services) and location of competitive facilities, including multipurpose shopping. He has co-edited several books, as well as authored several book chapters, on subjects including Location of Emergency Systems, Location in the Public Sector, Location of Jails, and Competitive Location. He is a member of the editorial or advisory boards of Computers & Operations Research, OR Spectrum and TOP. He received the biennial College of Engineering Award for Excellence in 2016.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Contributions to Location Analysis
Book Subtitle: In Honor of Zvi Drezner’s 75th Birthday
Editors: H. A. Eiselt, Vladimir Marianov
Series Title: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19111-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19110-8Published: 16 October 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19113-9Published: 16 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-19111-5Published: 07 October 2019
Series ISSN: 0884-8289
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7934
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 370
Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations, 22 illustrations in colour
Topics: Regional/Spatial Science, Operations Research/Decision Theory