An interactive computer system for multicriteria facility location

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Abstract

A computer system developed to assist a decision maker in finding his most preferred efficient solution to a multicriteria location model is described. The system requires interaction between the decision maker and optimization software to conduct a heuristic search of the set of efficient solutions to the location model. A command language developed to give the user control over the system and an optimization algorithm developed for finding efficient solutions are presented.

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This research was supported by the U.S. Department of Transportation under contract DOT-TSC-1617.

Dr.John Hultz is Senior Systems Analyst for Analysis, Research and Computation, Inc. He holds a B.A. in Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin. He has several years of experience as a systems analyst, having consulted on the design and implementation of mathematical programming systems for the U.S. Treasury and the U.S. Army. He is the author of 9 papers in the areas of network analysis and statistical analysis.

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Dr. Darwin Klingman is Professor of Operations Research and Computer Sciences and Director of Computer Science Research at the Center for Cybernetic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He holds a B.A and M.A. in Mathematics from Washington State University and a Ph.D. in Mathematics, Computer Science and Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of more than seventy published papers on the theory and computational implementation of transportation and network algorithms, linked list structures, graphs and integer programming. He has consulted for government and industry on the application of operations research and computer science to water resource management, site location models, transportation planning, network mathematical programming systems, telecommunication networks and integer programming problems.

Dr. Terry Ross is Associate Professor of Management Sciences at the University of Georgia. He holds a B.B.A and a Ph.D. in Business Administration, Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of eight published papers in the areas of network analysis and integer programming. He has worked as a computer systems analyst for the University of Texas and has been a consultant on the design and implementation of large-scale mathematical programming systems for solving machine loading, facility location, manpower assignment and production planning problems.

Dr. Richard Soland is Research Professor in the Department of Operations Research at the George Washington University. He holds a B.E.E. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was for seven years a member of the Advanced Research Department of Research Analysis Corporation involved in research on mathematical models for problems of the U.S. Army. He has held academic appointments at several major universities in the U.S., Canada and Europe and was a Fulbright Lecturer in Operations Research at the Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration. He is the author of more than 25 published papers in the fields of location theory, optimization theory and statistics.

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