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Facility Reliability Issues in Network p -Median Problems: Strategic Centralization and Co-Location Effects

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  • Oded Berman

    (Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, 105 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3E6)

  • Dmitry Krass

    (Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, 105 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3E6)

  • Mozart B. C. Menezes

    (HEC School of Management, Paris, 1 Rue de la Liberation, Jouy-en-Josas, 78351, France)

Abstract

In this paper, we analyze a facility location model where facilities may be subject to disruptions, causing customers to seek service from the operating facilities. We generalize the classical p -median problem on a network to explicitly include the failure probabilities, and analyze structural and algorithmic aspects of the resulting model. The optimal location patterns are seen to be strongly dependent on the probability of facility failure, with facilities becoming more centralized, or even co-located, as the failure probability grows. Several exact and heuristic solution approaches are developed. Results of numerical experiments are reported.

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  • Oded Berman & Dmitry Krass & Mozart B. C. Menezes, 2007. "Facility Reliability Issues in Network p -Median Problems: Strategic Centralization and Co-Location Effects," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 55(2), pages 332-350, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:oropre:v:55:y:2007:i:2:p:332-350
    DOI: 10.1287/opre.1060.0348
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