The problem of locating lock-boxes (post office boxes operated by banks for corporations) has been formulated as an uncapacitated plant location problem, for which there exist many efficient methods.

Facility location and optimization problems have long been a central focus in operations research and applied mathematics, addressing the challenge of strategically placing facilities to serve a ...

A variety of well-known facility location and location-allocation models are shown to be equivalent to, and therefore solvable as, generalized assignment problems (GAP's). (The GAP is a 0-1 ...