Spatial Interaction Models

Facility location theory develops the idea of locating one or more facilities by optimizing suitable criteria such as minimizing transportation cost, or capturing the largest market share. The contributions in this book focus an approach to facility location theory through game theoretical tools highlighting situations where a location decision is faced by several decision makers and leading to a game theoretical framework in non-cooperative and cooperative methods. Models and methods regarding the facility location via game theory are explored and applications are illustrated through economics, engineering, and physics. Mathematicians, engineers, economists and computer scientists working in theory, applications and computational aspects of facility location problems using game theory will find this book useful.

• Facility Location Theory
• Game Theory
• facilities location management
• Discrete location and assignment
• Noncooperative games
• Cooperative games
• minimizing transportation cost
• capturing the largest market share
• locational analysis

• Department of Mathematics and Applications, University of Naples Federico II, Napoli, Italy

  Lina Mallozzi

• Department of Industrial and Information Engineering, Second University of Naples, Aversa, Italy

  Egidio D'Amato

• Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

  Panos M. Pardalos

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