Dear fellow locaters,
 
Find below my latest collection, most  appeared in 2024 and also some older from 2021.
Hope you find some interesting among these 79 papers.
Best
Frank
 
Prof. Em. Frank Plastria
BUTO, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
frank.plastria@vub.be
 
[1] Seyed Reza Abazari, Amir Aghsami, and Masoud Rabbani. Prepositioning and distributing relief items in humanitarian logistics with uncertain parameters. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 74:100933, April 2021. [ DOI ]
[2] Omar Abbaas and Jose A. Ventura. A lexicographic optimization approach to the deviation-flow refueling station location problem on a general network. Optimization Letters, 16(3):953--982, June 2021. [ DOI ]
[3] Sepehr Abbasi, Ali Saboury, and Mohammad Saeed Jabalameli. Reliable supply chain network design for 3PL providers using consolidation hubs under disruption risks considering product perishability: An application to a pharmaceutical distribution network. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 152:107019, February 2021. [ DOI ]
[4] Robert Aboolian, Oded Berman, and Dmitry Krass. Optimizing facility location and design. European Journal of Operational Research, 289(1):31--43, February 2021. [ DOI ]
[5] Esmaeil Akhondi-Bajegani, F. Jolai, and S. Ali Torabi. A new mathematical model for designing and improving the performance of a home health care logistics network. Annals of Operations Research, 340(2–3):1189--1220, July 2024. [ DOI ]
[6] Roghayyeh Alizadeh, Tatsushi Nishi, Jafar Bagherinejad, and Mahdi Bashiri. Multi-period maximal covering location problem with capacitated facilities and modules for natural disaster relief services. Applied Sciences, 11(1):397, January 2021. [ DOI ]
[7] Somayeh Allahyari, Saeed Yaghoubi, and Tom Van Woensel. A novel risk perspective on location-routing planning: An application in cash transportation. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 150:102356, June 2021. [ DOI ]
[8] Intesar M. Al-Mudahka, Marwa S. Al-Jeraiwi, and Rym M’Hallah. Lower and upper bounds for the continuous single facility location problem in the presence of a forbidden region and travel barrier. RAIRO - Operations Research, 55(1):141--165, January 2021. [ DOI ]
[9] Glory Uche Alozie, Ashwin Arulselvan, Kerem Akartunalı, and Eduardo L. Pasiliao Jr. Efficient methods for the distance-based critical node detection problem in complex networks. Computers & Operations Research, 131:105254, July 2021. [ DOI ]
[10] F. Tevhide Altekin, Abdullah Dasci, and Mumtaz Karatas. Linear and conic reformulations for the maximum capture location problem under multinomial logit choice. Optimization Letters, 15(8):2611--2637, January 2021. [ DOI ]
[11] Sibel A. Alumur, James F. Campbell, Ivan Contreras, Bahar Y. Kara, Vladimir Marianov, and Morton E. O’Kelly. Perspectives on modeling hub location problems. European Journal of Operational Research, 291(1):1--17, May 2021. [ DOI ]
[12] Eduardo Álvarez Miranda, Marcos Goycoolea, Ivana Ljubić, and Markus Sinnl. The generalized reserve set covering problem with connectivity and buffer requirements. European Journal of Operational Research, 289(3):1013--1029, March 2021. [ DOI ]
[13] Mehdi Amiri-Aref, Saber Shiripour, and Diego Ruiz-Hernández. Exact and approximate heuristics for the rectilinear Weber location problem with a line barrier. Computers & Operations Research, 132:105293, August 2021. [ DOI ]
[14] Georg Anegg, Haris Angelidakis, Adam Kurpisz, and Rico Zenklusen. A technique for obtaining true approximations for k-center with covering constraints. Mathematical Programming, 192(1–2):3--27, April 2021. [ DOI ]
[15] Ali Aouad and Danny Segev. Display optimization for vertically differentiated locations under multinomial logit preferences. Management Science, 67(6):3519--3550, June 2021. [ DOI ]
[16] Mahsa Arabi, Mohammad Reza Gholamian, Ebrahim Teimoury, and Saeed Mirzamohammadi. A robust bi-level programming model to enhance resilience in supply chain network considering government role, taxing, and raw sale: An iron ore case study. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 193:110322, July 2024. [ DOI ]
[17] Florian Arnold and Kenneth Sörensen. A progressive filtering heuristic for the location-routing problem and variants. Computers & Operations Research, 129:105166, May 2021. [ DOI ]
[18] Okan Arslan. The location-or-routing problem. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 147:1--21, May 2021. [ DOI ]
[19] Okan Arslan and Gilbert Laporte. Network design with vulnerability constraints and probabilistic edge reliability. Networks, 84(2):181--199, April 2024. [ DOI ]
[20] Andreas Bley and Philipp Hahn. Identifying critical demand scenarios for the robust capacitated network design problem using principal component analysis. Networks, 84(3):278--299, June 2024. [ DOI ]
[21] Maurizio Boccia, Andrea Mancuso, Adriano Masone, and Claudio Sterle. Exact and heuristic approaches for the truck–drone team logistics problem. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 165:104691, August 2024. [ DOI ]
[22] JoséFernando CamachoVallejo, Dámaris Dávila, and Leopoldo Eduardo CárdenasBarrón. A warehouse locationallocation bilevel problem that considers inventory policies. Networks, 84(2):220--237, May 2024. [ DOI ]
[23] Emilio Carrizosa, Jasone Ramírez-Ayerbe, and Dolores Romero Morales. Mathematical optimization modelling for group counterfactual explanations. European Journal of Operational Research, 319(2):399--412, December 2024. [ DOI ]
[24] Kuo-Hao Chang, Yow-Jen Pan, and Hongey Chen. Shelter location–allocation problem for disaster evacuation planning: A simulation optimization approach. Computers & Operations Research, 171:106784, November 2024. [ DOI ]
[25] Mercè Claverol, Andrea de las Heras Parrilla, Clemens Huemer, and Alejandra Martínez-Moraian. The edge labeling of higher order Voronoi diagrams. Journal of Global Optimization, 90(2):515--549, May 2024. [ DOI ]
[26] Miguel F. Constantino, Marta Mesquita, Susete Marques, Sándor F. Tóth, and José G. Borges. Road network, landing location, and routing optimization for forest smallholders landscapes. International Transactions in Operational Research, 32(2):888--917, May 2024. [ DOI ]
[27] Minati De, Anil Maheshwari, and Ratnadip Mandal. Online class cover problem. Computational Geometry, 123:102120, December 2024. [ DOI ]
[28] Marc Demange, Marcel A. Haddad, and Cécile Murat. Approximating the probabilistic p-center problem under pressure. Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, 48(1), August 2024. [ DOI ]
[29] Maite Dewinter, Caroline Jagtenberg, Christophe Vandeviver, Philipp M. Dau, Tom Vander Beken, and Frank Witlox. Reducing police response times: Optimization and simulation of everyday police patrol. Networks, 84(3):363--381, June 2024. [ DOI ]
[30] Shibshankar Dey, Ali Kaan Kurbanzade, Esma S. Gel, Joseph Mihaljevic, and Sanjay Mehrotra. Optimization modeling for pandemic vaccine supply chain management: A review and future research opportunities. Naval Research Logistics (NRL), 71(7):976--1016, April 2024. [ DOI ]
[31] Concepción Domínguez, Ricardo Gázquez, Juan Miguel Morales, and Salvador Pineda. The cooperative maximal covering location problem with ordered partial attractions. Computers & Operations Research, 170:106782, October 2024. [ DOI ]
[32] Zvi Drezner, Jack Brimberg, and Anita Schöbel. Dispersed starting solutions in facility location: The case of the planar p-median problem. Computers & Operations Research, 169:106726, September 2024. [ DOI ]
[33] Yanting Duan, Bin Hu, Sang Ri, Lin Wang, and Meirong Zhou. A hybrid multi-criteria decision-making model for waste facilities location considering system resilience. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 193:110326, July 2024. [ DOI ]
[34] S. Ayca Erdogan, Khanh Phan, Seher G. Toplu, Tracey L. Krupski, and Jennifer M. Lobo. Optimization of periodic care locations to improve equity of specialty care services. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 193:110242, July 2024. [ DOI ]
[35] Bruna Figueiredo and Rui Borges Lopes. Considering sustainability and resilience in a location-routing problem. Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management, 17(2):463, June 2024. [ DOI ]
[36] Tetsuya Fujie, Yuya Higashikawa, Naoki Katoh, Junichi Teruyama, and Yuki Tokuni. Minmax regret 1-sink location problems on dynamic flow path networks with parametric weights. Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, 48(2), August 2024. [ DOI ]
[37] Yao Gao, Shaojun Lu, Sheng Zhan, Chaoming Hu, and Xinbao Liu. Closed-loop supply chain network design with price-greenness-sensitive demand: A distributionally robust chance-constrained optimization approach. Computers & Operations Research, 172:106803, December 2024. [ DOI ]
[38] Yeşim Gital and Bilge Bilgen. Biomass supply chain network design under uncertainty, risk and resilience: A systematic literature review. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 193:110270, July 2024. [ DOI ]
[39] Mitchell Goldberg, Peter Kugler, and Fabian Schär. Land valuation in the metaverse: location matters. Journal of Economic Geography, 24(5):729--758, August 2024. [ DOI ]
[40] Kannan Govindan, Fereshteh Sadeghi Naieni Fard, Fahimeh Asgari, Shahryar Sorooshian, and Hassan Mina. A bi-objective location-routing model for the healthcare waste management in the era of logistics 4.0 under uncertainty. International Journal of Production Economics, 276:109342, October 2024. [ DOI ]
[41] Ran Hu and Jingru Zhang. Computing k-centers of uncertain points on a real line. Operations Research Letters, 50(3):310--314, May 2022. [ DOI ]
[42] Jianhong Jin, Yingli Ran, and Zhao Zhang. Approximation algorithms for maximum weighted target cover problem with distance limitations. Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, 47(4), April 2024. [ DOI ]
[43] Pawel Kalczynski, Atsuo Suzuki, and Zvi Drezner. Obnoxious facility location: The case of weighted demand points. Journal of the Operations Research Society of Japan, 66(1):37--55, January 2023. [ DOI ]
[44] Alireza Khalili-Fard, Fatemeh Sabouhi, and Ali Bozorgi-Amiri. Data-driven robust optimization for a sustainable steel supply chain network design: Toward the circular economy. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 195:110408, September 2024. [ DOI ]
[45] François Lamothe, Claudio Contardo, and Matthieu Gruson. Tilted inequalities and facets of the set covering polytope: A theoretical analysis. Discrete Applied Mathematics, 357:143--160, November 2024. [ DOI ]
[46] Mercedes Landete and Juanjo Peiró. Some new clique inequalities in four-index hub location models. European Journal of Operational Research, 318(3):768--777, November 2024. [ DOI ]
[47] Mercedes Landete, Juan M. Muñoz-Ocaña, Antonio M. Rodríguez-Chía, and Francisco Saldanha-da Gama. Uncapacitated single-allocation hub median location with edge upgrading: Models and exact solution algorithms. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 187:103034, September 2024. [ DOI ]
[48] Hao Li, Liujiang Kang, Huijun Sun, Jianjun Wu, Yue Zhao, and Samuel Amihere. Fixed automated stations location and UAVs routing problems in urban road networks: A tailored branch-&-price algorithm. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 189:104201, November 2024. [ DOI ]
[49] Yu Lin, Yanhua Qiu, Hao Chen, Jun Zhou, Jiayi He, Penghua Du, and Dafan Liu. Hierarchical optimization framework for layout design of star–tree gas-gathering pipeline network in discrete spaces. Algorithms, 17(8):340, August 2024. [ DOI ]
[50] Marcella Braga de Assis Linhares, Renan Vicente Pinto, Nelson Maculan, and Marcos Negreiros. Secondorder cone programming models for the unitary weighted Weber problem and for the minimum sum of the squares clustering problem. International Transactions in Operational Research, 32(2):961--972, May 2024. [ DOI ]
[51] Bingqing Liu, Farnoosh Namdarpour, and Joseph Y.J. Chow. A districting problem with data reliability constraints for equity analysis. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 165:104759, August 2024. [ DOI ]
[52] Sheng Liu and Nooshin Salari. Fairness in accessibility of public service facilities. Operations Research Letters, 55:107141, July 2024. [ DOI ]
[53] Gang Liu and Haitao Wang. On the line-separable unit-disk coverage and related problems. Computational Geometry, 123:102122, December 2024. [ DOI ]
[54] Brian J. Lunday. The maximal covering location disruption problem. Computers & Operations Research, 169:106721, September 2024. [ DOI ]
[55] Xiangyong Luo, Michael J. Kuby, Yudai Honma, Mouna Kchaou-Boujelben, and Xuesong Simon Zhou. Innovation diffusion in EV charging location decisions: Integrating demand & supply through market dynamics. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 165:104733, August 2024. [ DOI ]
[56] Özlem Mahmutoğulları and Hande Yaman. Mathematical formulations for the multi-period alternative fuel refueling station location problem with routing under decision-dependent flow dynamics. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 186:102999, August 2024. [ DOI ]
[57] Pasin Manurangsi. Improved lower bound for differentially private facility location. Information Processing Letters, 187:106502, January 2025. [ DOI ]
[58] Vladimir Marianov and H.A. Eiselt. Fifty years of location theory - a selective review. European Journal of Operational Research, 318(3):701--718, November 2024. [ DOI ]
[59] F.R. McMorris, Henry Martyn Mulder, and Robert C. Powers. The weight balance function on trees. Discrete Applied Mathematics, 357:66--73, November 2024. [ DOI ]
[60] Rodolfo Mendoza-Gómez and Roger Z. Ríos-Mercado. Maximal covering location with partial coverage for second-level specialized health care services. Computers & Operations Research, 169:106725, September 2024. [ DOI ]
[61] Malgorzata Miklas-Kalczynska. Extensions to competitive facility location with multi-purpose trips. Networks and Spatial Economics, 24(3):565--588, May 2024. [ DOI ]
[62] Pawan K. Mishra, S.V. Rao, and Gautam K. Das. Dispersion problem on a convex polygon. Information Processing Letters, 187:106498, January 2025. [ DOI ]
[63] Rito Brata Nath, Tarun Rambha, and Maximilian Schiffer. On the impact of co-optimizing station locations, trip assignment, and charging schedules for electric buses. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 167:104839, October 2024. [ DOI ]
[64] Youngsoo Park, Chang Seong Ko, and Ilkyeong Moon. Unmanned aerial vehicle variable radius set covering problem for emergency wireless network. Computers & Operations Research, 170:106765, October 2024. [ DOI ]
[65] Amirreza Pashapour, Dilek Günneç, F. Sibel Salman, and Eda Yücel. Capacitated mobile facility location problem with mobile demand: Efficient relief aid provision to en route refugees. Omega, 129:103138, December 2024. [ DOI ]
[66] Florian Perauer, Tadej Brezina, and Stefan Edlinger. Identifying potential areas for new railway lines across different relief roughness of Austrian landscapes. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 17(4):1605--1629, August 2024. [ DOI ]
[67] Tobias Potoczki, Andreas Holzapfel, Heinrich Kuhn, and Michael Sternbeck. Integrated cross-dock location and supply mode planning in retail networks. International Journal of Production Economics, 276:109349, October 2024. [ DOI ]
[68] Justo Puerto and Carlos Valverde. The hampered k-median problem with neighbourhoods. Computers & Operations Research, 170:106786, October 2024. [ DOI ]
[69] Yukio Sadahiro and Hidetaka Matsumoto. Analysis of a spatial point pattern in relation to a reference point. Journal of Geographical Systems, 26(3):351--373, January 2024. [ DOI ]
[70] Fatemeh Shekoohi Tolgari and Naeme Zarrinpoor. A robust reverse pharmaceutical supply chain design considering perishability and sustainable development objectives. Annals of Operations Research, 340(2–3):981--1033, May 2024. [ DOI ]
[71] Gita Taherkhani, Mojtaba Hosseini, and Sibel A. Alumur. Sustainable hub location under uncertainty. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 187:103040, September 2024. [ DOI ]
[72] Ajinkya Tanksale, Jyotirmoy Dalal, and Nistha Dubey. Integrated foodbank network design: Model and a case study. International Journal of Production Economics, 277:109385, November 2024. [ DOI ]
[73] Sedanur Temiz, Hande Cansın Kazanç, Mehmet Soysal, and Mustafa Çimen. A probabilistic biobjective model for a humanitarian locationrouting problem under uncertain demand and road closure. International Transactions in Operational Research, 32(2):590--625, May 2024. [ DOI ]
[74] Wenjie Yang, Aakil M. Caunhye, Maolin Zhuo, and Qingyi Wang. Integrated planning of emergency supply pre-positioning and victim evacuation. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 95:101965, October 2024. [ DOI ]
[75] Fan Yuan, Dachuan Xu, Donglei Du, and Min Li. Differentially private k-center problems. Optimization Letters, 18(8):1791--1809, January 2024. [ DOI ]
[76] Ecem Yucesoy, Burcu Balcik, and Elvin Coban. The role of drones in disaster response: A literature review of operations research applications. International Transactions in Operational Research, 32(2):545--589, June 2024. [ DOI ]
[77] Yuji Zou, Jin-Kao Hao, and Qinghua Wu. A reinforcement learning guided hybrid evolutionary algorithm for the latency location routing problem. Computers & Operations Research, 170:106758, October 2024. [ DOI ]
[78] Hossein Reyhani Yamchi, Younis Jabarzadeh, Kannan Govindan, and Hannan Amoozad Mahdiraji. A triple bottom line approach for designing a sustainable closed-loop supply chain network in fruit industry: A metaheuristic solution approach. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 75(10):1925--1948, February 2024. [ DOI ]
[79] Herman Haverkort and Rolf Klein. The limit of lp Voronoi diagrams as p->0 is the bounding-box-area Voronoi diagram. Discrete & Computational Geometry, 72(3):1284--1303, October 2023. [ DOI ]