The gravity p-median model |
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Authors: | Tammy Drezner Zvi Drezner |
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Institution: | College of Business and Economics, California State University-Fullerton, Fullerton, CA 92834, United States |
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Abstract: | In this paper we propose a new model for the p-median problem. In the standard p-median problem it is assumed that each demand point is served by the closest facility. In many situations (for example, when demand points are communities of customers and each customer makes his own selection of the facility) demand is divided among the facilities. Each customer selects a facility which is not necessarily the closest one. In the gravity p-median problem it is assumed that customers divide their patronage among the facilities with the probability that a customer patronizes a facility being proportional to the attractiveness of that facility and to a decreasing utility function of the distance to the facility. |
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Keywords: | p-Median Gravity Huff Location&ndash allocation |
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