Recent advances in optimization, particularly in the study of nonlinear, stochastic and robust integer problems, have greatly enhanced the expanded the scope of tractable problems and enabled rich problem features to be built into facility location models. This has allowed researchers and practitioners to enhance the classical facility location models by incorporating problem-specific facility characteristics into their models and obtain richer insights into location planning problems in practice. In this monograph, we have provided an introduction to this integrated modeling approach to facility location and a brief review of the vast and growing literature.
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