Abstract
We conduct a comprehensive review on multi-level facility location problems which extend several classical facility location problems and can be regarded as a subclass within the well-established field of hierarchical facility location. We first present the main characteristics of these problems and discuss some similarities and differences with related areas. Based on the types of decisions involved in the optimization process, we identify three different categories of multi-level facility location problems. We present overviews of formulations, algorithms and applications, and we trace the historical development of the field.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 791-805 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | European Journal of Operational Research |
| Volume | 267 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Early online date | 28 Oct 2017 |
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| Publication status | Published - 16 Jun 2018 |
Funding
This research was partly funded by the Canadian Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council under grants 418609–2012 and 2015–06189 . This support is gratefully acknowledged. The authors thank three anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments on a previous version of this paper.
Keywords
- Hierarchical
- Location
- Multi-level facility location
- Review
- Supply chain
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Computer Science
- Modelling and Simulation
- Management Science and Operations Research
- Information Systems and Management