Dear fellow locater,

Here is the May 2025 collection: 81 references about or related to location science, almost half brand new from this year, the other almost half from2020, as well as a few missing items from my previous collections for the years in between.
There are still many hundreds to come before filling the gap I left since my retirement in 2013, so this monthly column started up again in July 2023 will be continued for quite a while (I hope). Working backwards at this pace the backlog  might take another two or three years at least. And new ones keep flowing in at an incredible rate  ...
Cheers
Frank 

Prof. Em. Frank Plastria

BUTO, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

frank.plastria@vub.be


%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

[1]
Roghayyeh Alizadeh and Mohammad Reza Akbari Jokar. Mathematical models and concepts for blockchain network design in supply chain. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 204:111118, June 2025. [ DOI ]
[2]
Khalid Aljohani and Russell G. Thompson. A multi-criteria spatial evaluation framework to optimise the siting of freight consolidation facilities in inner-city areas. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 138:51--69, August 2020. [ DOI ]
[3]
Giuseppe Ambrosio, Raffaele Cerulli, Domenico Serra, Carmine Sorgente, and Ugo Vaccaro. Exact and heuristic solution approaches for the cluster deletion problem on general graphs. Networks, 85(4):351--367, February 2025. [ DOI ]
[4]
Eliseu J. Araújo, Antônio A. Chaves, and Luiz A.N. Lorena. A mathematical model for the coverage location problem with overlap control. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 146:106548, August 2020. [ DOI ]
[5]
Okan Arslan, Ola Jabali, and Gilbert Laporte. A flexible, natural formulation for the network design problem with vulnerability constraints. INFORMS Journal on Computing, 32(1):120--134, January 2020. [ DOI ]
[6]
Chunsong Bai, Liqi Zhang, and Jianjie Zhou. A note on the inverse connected p-median problem on block graphs. Advances in Pure Mathematics, 13(04):181--186, 2023. [ DOI ]
[7]
Mouhamadou A. M. T. Baldé, Serigne Gueye, and Babacar M. Ndiaye. A greedy evolutionary hybridization algorithm for the optimal network and quadratic assignment problem. Operational Research, 21(3):1663--1690, February 2020. [ DOI ]
[8]
Anne G. Balter, Cláudia Nunes, Diogo Pereira, and Peter M. Kort. Innovation and product positioning: When to add or replace. Omega, 136:103327, October 2025. [ DOI ]
[9]
Gustavo Bergantiños, María Gómez-Rúa, Natividad Llorca, Manuel Pulido, and Joaquín Sánchez-Soriano. Allocating costs in set covering problems. European Journal of Operational Research, 284(3):1074--1087, August 2020. [ DOI ]
[10]
Justin J. Boutilier and Timothy C. Y. Chan. Ambulance emergency response optimization in developing countries. Operations Research, 68(5):1315--1334, September 2020. [ DOI ]
[11]
Leonardo Caggiani, Aleksandra Colovic, and Michele Ottomanelli. An equality-based model for bike-sharing stations location in bicycle-public transport multimodal mobility. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 140:251--265, October 2020. [ DOI ]
[12]
Herminia I. Calvete, Carmen Galé, José A. Iranzo, José-Fernando Camacho-Vallejo, and Martha-Selene Casas-Ramírez. A matheuristic for solving the bilevel approach of the facility location problem with cardinality constraints and preferences. Computers & Operations Research, 124:105066, December 2020. [ DOI ]
[13]
Mengyi Cui, Shaoxin Shen, and Fengtian Zheng. The impact of highway improvements on new firm location in underdeveloped regions: Evidence from China. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 99:102183, June 2025. [ DOI ]
[14]
Samuel Deleplanque, Martine Labbé, Diego Ponce, and Justo Puerto. A branch-price-and-cut procedure for the discrete ordered median problem. INFORMS Journal on Computing, 32(3):582--599, July 2020. [ DOI ]
[15]
Shaolin Ding and Quanhong Li. Optimization of the number and location of boreholes for gassy soil site investigation considering the statistical uncertainty. World Journal of Engineering and Technology, 12(04):895--913, 2024. [ DOI ]
[16]
Xiaosong Ding, Jun Ma, Xiuming Li, and Xi Chen. Improved randomized approaches to the location of a conservative hyperplane. Optimization Letters, 19(4):793--809, July 2024. [ DOI ]
[17]
Fredrik Ekstedt, Raad Salman, and Peter Damaschke. Branch and bound for the fixed-shape unequal area facility layout problem. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 203:110987, May 2025. [ DOI ]
[18]
Mohammad Firouz, Afshin Oroojlooy-Jadid, and Ardavan Asef-Vaziri. Dynamic unequal area facility layout design under stochastic material flow, re-arrangement cost, and change period. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 203:110971, May 2025. [ DOI ]
[19]
Arash Gourtani, Tri-Dung Nguyen, and Huifu Xu. A distributionally robust optimization approach for two-stage facility location problems. EURO Journal on Computational Optimization, 8(2):141--172, June 2020. [ DOI ]
[20]
Saber Ibrahim and Bassem Jarboui. A general variable neighborhood search approach based on a p-median model for cellular manufacturing problems. Optimization Letters, 16(1):137--151, November 2020. [ DOI ]
[21]
Param Iyer and David Robb. Cold chain optimisation models: A systematic literature review. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 204:110972, June 2025. [ DOI ]
[22]
Nan Jiang and Huizhen Zhang. Improved adaptive differential evolution algorithm for the un-capacitated facility location problem. Open Journal of Applied Sciences, 13(05):685--695, 2023. [ DOI ]
[23]
Ahmed Abdelmoumene Kadri, Romain Perrouault, Mouna Kchaou Boujelben, and Céline Gicquel. A multi-stage stochastic integer programming approach for locating electric vehicle charging stations. Computers & Operations Research, 117:104888, May 2020. [ DOI ]
[24]
Gokhan Karakose and İslam Diri. A path-free modelling approach for the traffic counting location problem. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 204:111079, June 2025. [ DOI ]
[25]
Biswajit Kar and Mamata Jenamani. Modelling a capacitated location problem for designing multimodal vaccine distribution network using a novel health emergency susceptibility index. Computers & Operations Research, 180:107056, August 2025. [ DOI ]
[26]
Özlem Karsu, İzzet Egemen Elver, and Tuna Arda Kınık. Finding robustly fair solutions in resource allocation. Omega, 131:103208, February 2025. [ DOI ]
[27]
Onur Kaya and Dogus Ozkok. A blood bank network design problem with integrated facility location, inventory and routing decisions. Networks and Spatial Economics, 20(3):757--783, July 2020. [ DOI ]
[28]
Nikolai Krivulin. Algebraic solution of minimax single-facility constrained location problems with Chebyshev and rectilinear distances. Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming, 115:100578, October 2020. [ DOI ]
[29]
N. K. Krivulin and M. A. Bryushinin. Solution of a two-facility location problem in a space with Chebyshev distance. Vestnik St. Petersburg University, Mathematics, 55(4):406--413, December 2022. [ DOI ]
[30]
Xiangyong Li and Y.P. Aneja. A branch-and-Benders-cut approach for the fault tolerant regenerator location problem. Computers & Operations Research, 115:104847, March 2020. [ DOI ]
[31]
Yuanbo Li, Ziliang Jin, Jing Ma, Jiushenzi Luo, and Peixuan Li. Integrated location and operation for emergency road service: A machine learning-driven robust approach. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 203:111016, May 2025. [ DOI ]
[32]
Gao-Xi Li, Yi Ren, and Peiru Yi. Sparse facility location and network design problems. Omega, 136:103319, October 2025. [ DOI ]
[33]
Hao Lin and Cheng He. On fixed-parameter solvability of the minimax path location problem. Communications on Applied Mathematics and Computation, 5(4):1644--1654, January 2023. [ DOI ]
[34]
Yunhua Liu, Ehsan Dehghani, Mohammad Saeed Jabalameli, Ali Diabat, and Chung-Cheng Lu. A coordinated location-inventory problem with supply disruptions: A two-phase queuing theory–optimization model approach. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 142:106326, April 2020. [ DOI ]
[35]
Ming Liu, Zhongzheng Liu, Feng Chu, Feifeng Zheng, and Alexandre Dolgui. Dynamic structural adaptation for building viable supply chains under super disruption events. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 195:103190, May 2025. [ DOI ]
[36]
Mengrui Liu, Nengmin Wang, Meng Zhang, and Weixuan Shi. Location-routing problem for customized product delivery considering assembly delay. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 204:111086, June 2025. [ DOI ]
[37]
Mehdi Mahmoodjanloo, Reza Tavakkoli-Moghaddam, Armand Baboli, and Atefeh Jamiri. A multi-modal competitive hub location pricing problem with customer loyalty and elastic demand. Computers & Operations Research, 123:105048, November 2020. [ DOI ]
[38]
Tien Mai and Andrea Lodi. A multicut outer-approximation approach for competitive facility location under random utilities. European Journal of Operational Research, 284(3):874--881, August 2020. [ DOI ]
[39]
Alfredo Marín, Diego Ponce, and Justo Puerto. A fresh view on the discrete ordered median problem based on partial monotonicity. European Journal of Operational Research, 286(3):839--848, November 2020. [ DOI ]
[40]
Lauren McNamara, Peter T. Vanberkel, David Petrie, and Alix J.E. Carter. An application and framework for evaluating emergency department networks using location analysis and geographic information systems. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 149:106766, November 2020. [ DOI ]
[41]
Gonzalo Méndez-Vogel, Vladimir Marianov, and Armin Lüer-Villagra. Combining state-of-the-art row generation methods for the competitive facility location problem with multinomial logit choice rule. Omega, 136:103339, October 2025. [ DOI ]
[42]
Daijiro Mizutani, Shunichi Fukuyama, and Koki Satsukawa. Optimal road facility spare parts location with continuum approximation. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 174:105109, May 2025. [ DOI ]
[43]
Rola Younis Masoud Mohammed and Mohammad Asif Salam. Understanding the dynamics location of very large populations interacted with service points. Open Journal of Modelling and Simulation, 11(03):60--87, 2023. [ DOI ]
[44]
Alan T. Murray. Beyond location modeling and GIS: Integration and bridging. Computers & Operations Research, 180:107073, August 2025. [ DOI ]
[45]
Ibrahim A. Nemer, Tarek R. Sheltami, and Ashraf S. Mahmoud. A game theoretic approach of deployment a multiple UAVs for optimal coverage. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 140:215--230, October 2020. [ DOI ]
[46]
Kien Trung Nguyen and Wen Chean Teh. The uniform cost reverse 1-centdian location problem on tree networks with edge length reduction. Vietnam Journal of Mathematics, 51(2):345--361, October 2021. [ DOI ]
[47]
Trung Kien Nguyen, Nguyen Thanh Hung, and Huong Nguyen-Thu. A linear time algorithm for the p-maxian problem on trees with distance constraint. Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, 40(4):1030--1043, September 2020. [ DOI ]
[48]
Kien Trung Nguyen, Nguyen Thanh Hung, and Huong Nguyen-Thu. Unified approach to the inverse median location problem under the sum and the max objectives applying ordered median function. Optimization, 74(7):1723--1741, April 2024. [ DOI ]
[49]
Mohammad Nikzamir and Vahid Baradaran. A healthcare logistic network considering stochastic emission of contamination: Bi-objective model and solution algorithm. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 142:102060, October 2020. [ DOI ]
[50]
Duygu Pamukcu, Melih Çelik, and Burcu Balçık. Integrating logistics planning and population sampling decisions for humanitarian needs assessment. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 99:102204, June 2025. [ DOI ]
[51]
Mustapha Ratli, Dragan Urošević, Abdessamad Ait El Cadi, Jack Brimberg, Nenad Mladenović, and Raca Todosijević. An efficient heuristic for a hub location routing problem. Optimization Letters, 16(1):281--300, November 2020. [ DOI ]
[52]
Sebastian A. Rodriguez, Rodrigo A. De la Fuente, and Maichel M. Aguayo. A facility location and equipment emplacement technique model with expected coverage for the location of fire stations in the Concepción province, Chile. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 147:106522, September 2020. [ DOI ]
[53]
Marisol S. Romero‐Mancilla, Jaime Mora‐Vargas, and Angel Ruiz. A fix‐and‐optimize matheuristic to solve the location‐allocation of vaccination facilities: Case of Jalisco, Mexico. Networks, 85(4):382--395, February 2025. [ DOI ]
[54]
Daniel Santos, Carlos Santos, Jonata Santos, Aloísio Filho, and Hugo Saba. The importance of the facility location techniques to assist companies in decision-making for the installation of logistics hub. Open Journal of Business and Management, 12(01):79--89, 2024. [ DOI ]
[55]
Kamran Sarmadi and Mehdi Amiri-Aref. A distributionally robust optimisation with joint chance constraints approach for location-routing problem in urban search and rescue operations. Computers & Operations Research, 180:107051, August 2025. [ DOI ]
[56]
Shahrooz Shahparvari, Araz Nasirian, Alireza Mohammadi, Sepideh Noori, and Prem Chhetri. A GIS-LP integrated approach for the logistics hub location problem. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 146:106488, August 2020. [ DOI ]
[57]
Jan Stentoft, Ole Stegmann Mikkelsen, and Kent Adsbøll Wickstrøm. Reshoring manufacturing: the influence of industry 4.0, Covid-19, and made-in effects. Operations Management Research, 18(1):353--372, July 2024. [ DOI ]
[58]
Keshuang Tang, Qiushan Zhang, Yumin Cao, Jiahao Liu, Junping Xiang, and Hong Zhu. A novel AVI sensor location model for individual vehicle path reconstruction on urban road networks. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 174:105103, May 2025. [ DOI ]
[59]
Zhong-Zheng Tang, Chen-Hao Wang, Meng-Qi Zhang, and Ying-Chao Zhao. Strategyproof facility location with limited locations. Journal of the Operations Research Society of China, 11(3):553--567, January 2022. [ DOI ]
[60]
S. Taymaz, C. Iyigun, Z.P. Bayindir, and N.P. Dellaert. A healthcare facility location problem for a multi-disease, multi-service environment under risk aversion. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 71:100755, September 2020. [ DOI ]
[61]
Sahar Validi, Arijit Bhattacharya, and P. J. Byrne. An evaluation of three DoE-guided meta-heuristic-based solution methods for a three-echelon sustainable distribution network. Annals of Operations Research, 296(1–2):421--469, August 2020. [ DOI ]
[62]
Truong Van Nguyen, Jie Zhang, Li Zhou, Meng Meng, and Yong He. A data-driven optimization of large-scale dry port location using the hybrid approach of data mining and complex network theory. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 134:101816, February 2020. [ DOI ]
[63]
M. E. Vodyan, A. A. Panin, and A. V. Plyasunov. A study of the threshold stability of the bilevel problem of facility location and discriminatory pricing. Journal of Applied and Industrial Mathematics, 18(3):558--574, June 2024. [ DOI ]
[64]
Changjun Wang and Shutong Chen. A distributionally robust optimization for blood supply network considering disasters. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 134:101840, February 2020. [ DOI ]
[65]
Feng-Min Wang, Jia-Jia Wang, Na Li, Yan-Jun Jiang, and Shi-Cheng Li. A cost-sharing scheme for the k-level facility location game with penalties. Journal of the Operations Research Society of China, 10(1):173--182, June 2021. [ DOI ]
[66]
Jian Wang, Yin Wang, and Mingzhu Yu. A multi-period ambulance location and allocation problem in the disaster. Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, 43(5):909--932, June 2020. [ DOI ]
[67]
Yuexia Wang, Hongyan Ma, and Ying Liu. Sustainable food waste supply chain network design problem with government environmental oversight: Globalized robust bi-level model and exact algorithm. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 99:102205, June 2025. [ DOI ]
[68]
Chenchen Wu, Donglei Du, and Yue Kang. An approximation algorithm for stochastic multi-level facility location problem with soft capacities. Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, 44(3):1680--1692, feb 2020. [ DOI ]
[69]
Tai-Hsi Wu, Chun-Yuan Chen, Shi-Wei Huang, and Teng-To Yu. An integrated decision framework for landfill mining site selection using GIS, multi-criteria analysis, and optimization models. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 99:102220, June 2025. [ DOI ]
[70]
Jiafei Wu, Puning Zhao, Chong Wang, and Zhe Liu. Robust federated learning under realistic corruption: An iterative filtering approach. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 12(9):12948--12957, May 2025. [ DOI ]
[71]
Hui Xiao, Xiaoqian Yu, Yanqiu Cao, Siying Yang, and Yu Ge. A taxicab strong coverage station location model based on big data of travel trajectory. OALib, 08(11):1--11, 2021. [ DOI ]
[72]
Ertan Yakici and Mumtaz Karatas. Ant colony optimization for solving large-scale bi-level network design problems. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 204:111077, June 2025. [ DOI ]
[73]
Shangyao Yan, Jieh-Haur Chen, Shao-Heng Chang, and Hsi-Hsien Wei. Enhancing regional defense: barrier placement optimization along coasts. Operations Management Research, 18(1):257--268, October 2024. [ DOI ]
[74]
Zijing Yang and Songsong Liu. Fairness-oriented multi-objective optimization of supply chain planning under uncertainties. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 99:102198, June 2025. [ DOI ]
[75]
Lingxiao Yang and Jianfeng Zheng. Liner hub covering problem with elliptical coverage: Improving the cost performance of hub covering problems. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 203:110992, May 2025. [ DOI ]
[76]
Shiva Zandkarimkhani, Hassan Mina, Mehdi Biuki, and Kannan Govindan. A chance constrained fuzzy goal programming approach for perishable pharmaceutical supply chain network design. Annals of Operations Research, 295(1):425--452, June 2020. [ DOI ]
[77]
Li Zhang and Qiaoliang Li. Approximation algorithm for dynamic facility location problem. Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, 49(3), April 2025. [ DOI ]
[78]
Peiyu Zhang, Yankui Liu, Guoqing Yang, and Guoqing Zhang. A multi-objective distributionally robust model for sustainable last mile relief network design problem. Annals of Operations Research, 309(2):689--730, October 2020. [ DOI ]
[79]
Qianxue Zhang, Hongliang Li, Huili Pei, and Naiqi Liu. Construction of a new robust dual-channel supply chain network with forward logistics and reverse logistics. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 204:111075, June 2025. [ DOI ]
[80]
Bin Zhou. A cautionary note on the application of GIS in spatial optimization modeling. Journal of Geographic Information System, 16(01):89--113, 2024. [ DOI ]
[81]
Zhongbao Zhou, Wenting Sun, Tiantian Ren, and Ximei Zeng. Facility location and capacity planning for sampling and testing processes under demand uncertainty. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 204:111094, June 2025. [ DOI ]