Multicriteria Location Analysis

This book applies Multicriteria Decision Making (MCDM) tools and techniques to problems in location analysis. It begins with a generic model for MCDM and subsequently develops specific versions of the technique for particular location problems. Throughout the book, MCDM is understood to encompass all tools and techniques that choose or rank existing or feasible solutions, including discrete multi-attribute decision making (MADM) problems, which typically include an attribute table that specifies the consequences of each decision with regard to the given criteria, as well as multi-objective linear problems (MOLPs), which incorporate all objectives in a single optimization problem. 

This book is intended as a textbook for upper-undergraduate and master-level courses on location analysis. It will also benefit decision-makers who actually need to locate facilities. 

Preface.- Introduction.- Chapter 1: Single-objective optimization.- Chapter 2: Multicriteria decision making.- Chapter 3: Location models.- Chapter 4: Mathematical and geospatial tools.- Chapter 5: Locating a landfill with vector optimization.- Chapter 6: Using goal programming to locate a new fire hall.- Chapter 7: Locating a hospital with a zoom approach.- "Chapter 8: Locating a private school with a generic method.- Chapter 9: Locating jails with a target value approach.- "Chapter 10: A rejection approach to locate a new city park.- Chapter 11: Locating a new fulfillment center with the domain criterion.- Chapter 12: Locating fast food restaurants with the analytic hierarchy process.- Chapter 13: Locating billboards with the Jefferson-d’Hondt method.- Chapter 14: Locating an airport by voting.- Chapter 15: How location works in practice: a perspective from the United States.

H. A. Eiselt is a Professor in the Faculty of, University of New Brunswick, Canada. He joined the then Faculty of Business Administration in 1986 and is a member of the Quantitative Methods Area. He teaches Quantitative Analysis and Location Theory in the BBA program. Dr. Eiselt received the UNB Merit Award in 1991. He received the Faculty of Business Administration's Excellence in Research Award in 1998, 2003 and 2014 for outstanding performance across his career. He is Associate Editor of INFOR. He is also a member of the Advisory or Editorial Boards of Computers & Operations Research, International Journal of Operations, Quantitative Management. He has (co-)authored 121 scientific papers and has authored or edited 14 books, 11 with Springer.

Vladimir Marianov is an Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago, Chile, where he teaches and performs research on Facility Location and Network Design. He has publishedover 90 refereed papers in international journals and presented a large number of papers at conferences and lectures, which has earned him international recognition. His research interests include the design and optimization of communication networks. He earned a degree in Telecommunications Engineering at the Universidad de Chile and his Master of Engineering and Doctor of Philosophy at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Joyendu “Joy” Bhadury is Professor and Dean at the Davis College of Business and Economics at Radford University, Virginia, USA. Prior to his current appointment, he was Professor and Dean at the School of Business and Management at SUNY–Brockport and Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Programs for the Bryan School of Business and Economics at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. After completing his PhD in Management Science from the University of Texas at Dallas in 1991, he has also worked at the following institutions: University of New Brunswick, Canada, SUNY-Buffalo and California State University – East Bay. His professional specialization is in Management Science and Operations, Logistics and Supply Chain Management and his work has been published in numerous national and international academic journals and supported by funding from various agencies in USA and Canada.