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DESIGN OF SERVICE SYSTEMS WITH FUNCTIONALLY FOCUSED FACILITIES
Author(s) -
Akinc Unlit
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
papers in regional science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.937
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1435-5957
pISSN - 1056-8190
DOI - 10.1111/j.1435-5597.1988.tb01156.x
Subject(s) - variety (cybernetics) , computer science , facility location problem , integer programming , service (business) , type of service , operations research , facility management , mathematical optimization , business , engineering , mathematics , algorithm , artificial intelligence , marketing
In this paper we present a mathematical model in study certain design dimensions of facility systems that provide a wide variety of services to a geographical area. Facilities of different types are defined on the basis of the services they provide. We maintain that providing all these services by use of such specialised for functionally differentiated) facilities will help achieve a greater degree of system efficiency, especially it different facility types are coordinated in the delivery of these services and in the use of resources. The problem of determining the numbers, sizes, and locations of these “focused” facility types is formulated as a mixed‐integer quadratic programming problem. An approximate algorithm is given for the analysis of this model whose computational feasibility is discussed for actual applications. A hypothetical example is provided to illustrate the model and the solution method.