Dear fellow locaters,

The 2024 spring collection is here! Enjoy. Sincerely Frank Plastria

Prof. Em. Frank Plastria BUTO, Vrije Universiteit Brussel frank.plastria@vub.be

[1] Håkon Furnes Havre, Ulrik Lien, Mattias Myklebust Ness, Kjetil Fagerholt, and Kenneth Løvold Rødseth. Network design with route planning for battery electric high-speed passenger vessel services. European Journal of Operational Research, 315(1):102--119, May 2024. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2023.11.015 ] [2] Amin Hocine, Noureddine Kouaissah, Sergio Ortobelli Lozza, and Tarik Aouam. Modelling de novo programming within Simon’s satisficing theory: Methods and application in designing an optimal offshore wind farm location system. European Journal of Operational Research, 315(1):289--306, May 2024. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2023.11.046 ] [3] Boglárka G.-Tóth. Customer selection rules in competitive facility location. Annales Mathematicae et Informaticae, Accepted manuscript, 2024. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.33039/ami.2024.02.003 ] [4] Mingqiang Yin, Min Huang, Dazhi Wang, Shu-Cherng Fang, Xiaohu Qian, and Xingwei Wang. Multi-period fourth-party logistics network design with the temporary outsourcing service under demand uncertainty. Computers & Operations Research, 164:106564, April 2024. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2024.106564 ] [5] Silvia Baldassarre, Giuseppe Bruno, Ioannis Giannikos, and Carmela Piccolo. A two-level hierarchical nested cooperative location model. Computers & Operations Research, 164:106519, April 2024. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2023.106519 ] [6] Prakhar Mehrotra, Mingang Fu, Jing Huang, Sai Rajesh Mahabhashyam, Minghui Liu, Ming (Arthur) Yang, Xiaojie Wang, Joseph Hendricks, Ranjith Moola, Daniel Morland, Kim Krozier, Tiantian Nie, Ou Sun, Fereydoun Adbesh, Ti Zhang, Monika Shrivastav, Jiefeng Xu, Sudarshan Rajan, Michael Turner, Samuel Tucker, Megan D. Jones, Fei Xiao, Ankush Bhargava, Deepak Deshpande, Shwetal Mokashi, Travis Johnson, Chandramouli Raman, Megan Ferguson, Mike Keller, Scott Donahue, Rajiv Bhutta, Mohan Akella, Parvez Musani, Srinivasan Venkatesan, David Guggina, and John Furner. Optimizing Walmart’s supply chain from strategy to execution. INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics, 54(1):5--19, January 2024. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1287/inte.2023.0093 ] [7] Sara Ceschia and Andrea Schaerf. Multi-neighborhood simulated annealing for the capacitated facility location problem with customer incompatibilities. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 188:109858, February 2024. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2023.109858 ] [8] Muhammad Sulaman, Mahmoud Golabi, Mokhtar Essaid, Julien Lepagnot, Mathieu Brévilliers, and Lhassane Idoumghar. Surrogate-assisted metaheuristics for the facility location problem with distributed demands on network edges. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 188:109931, February 2024. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2024.109931 ] [9] Mingyao Qi, Ruiwei Jiang, and Siqian Shen. Sequential competitive facility location: Exact and approximate algorithms. Operations Research, 72(1):300--316, January 2024. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1287/opre.2022.2339 ] [10] Carla Michini, Peter Ohmann, Ben Liblit, and Jeff Linderoth. A set-covering approach to customized coverage instrumentation. INFORMS Journal on Computing, 36(1):21--38, January 2024. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1287/ijoc.2021.0349 ] [11] Tianyi Li and Munther A. Dahleh. Automation of strategic data prioritization in system model calibration: Sensor placement. INFORMS Journal on Computing, 36(1):163--184, January 2024. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1287/ijoc.2022.0128 ] [12] Andrei Comăneci and Michael Joswig. Tropical medians by transportation. Mathematical Programming, 205(1–2):813--839, July 2023. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10107-023-01996-8 ] [13] Luohao Tang and Dexiang Wu. Enhanced capacitated facility location problem for mental accounting management using partial resource concentration. Annals of Operations Research, 335(1):385--424, September 2023. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10479-023-05572-3 ] [14] Amin Ahmadi Digehsara, Amir Ardestani-Jaafari, Shumail Mazahir, and Michel Fathi. Two-stage nodal network interdiction under decision-dependent uncertainty. Annals of Operations Research, 335(2):665--687, October 2023. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10479-023-05630-w ] [15] Mamta Mishra, Surya Prakash Singh, and Manmohan Prasad Gupta. Two phase algorithm for bi-objective relief distribution location problem. Annals of Operations Research, 335(3):1363--1399, June 2022. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10479-022-04751-y ] [16] Cejun Cao, Juan Li, Ju Liu, Jiahui Liu, Hanguang Qiu, and Jie Zhen. Sustainable development-oriented location-transportation integrated optimization problem regarding multi-period multi-type disaster medical waste during covid-19 pandemic. Annals of Operations Research, 335(3):1401--1447, August 2022. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10479-022-04820-2 ] [17] Levent Eriskin, Mumtaz Karatas, and Yu-Jun Zheng. A robust multi-objective model for healthcare resource management and location planning during pandemics. Annals of Operations Research, 335(3):1471--1518, May 2022. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10479-022-04760-x ] [18] Pedro Ferrão Patrício. Wildlife reserve design with connectivity and buffer requirements. International Transactions in Operational Research, 31(4):2231--2246, November 2022. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1111/itor.13230 ] [19] Mehran Hasanzadeh, Behrooz Alizadeh, and Fahimeh Baroughi. Optimal algorithms for inverse obnoxious center location problems under the weighted Chebyshev and Hamming cost norms on networks. Optimization, 73(3):545--574, September 2022. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02331934.2022.2116937 ] [20] Haitao Wang and Jie Xue. Improved algorithms for the bichromatic two-center problem for pairs of points. Computational Geometry, 100:101806, January 2022. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.comgeo.2021.101806 ] [21] Víctor Bucarey, Bernard Fortz, Natividad González-Blanco, Martine Labbé, and Juan A. Mesa. Benders decomposition for network design covering problems. Computers & Operations Research, 137:105417, January 2022. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2021.105417 ] [22] Adam B. Haywood, Brian J. Lunday, Matthew J. Robbins, and Meir N. Pachter. The weighted intruder path covering problem. European Journal of Operational Research, 297(1):347--358, February 2022. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2021.05.038 ] [23] Takuro Fukunaga, R. Ravi, Oleksandr Rudenko, and Ziye Tang. Two-level hub Steiner trees. Information Processing Letters, 174:106209, March 2022. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ipl.2021.106209 ] [24] Richard L. Church and Zvi Drezner. Review of obnoxious facilities location problems. Computers & Operations Research, 138:105468, February 2022. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2021.105468 ] [25] Davide Cazzaro and David Pisinger. Variable neighborhood search for large offshore wind farm layout optimization. Computers & Operations Research, 138:105588, February 2022. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2021.105588 ] [26] F. Álvarez Bazo, R. Cerulli, S. Sánchez-Cambronero, M. Gentili, and A. Rivas. An iterative multiparametric approach for determining the location of AVI sensors for robust route flow estimation. Computers & Operations Research, 138:105596, February 2022. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2021.105596 ] [27] Hyelim Shin, Taesik Lee, and Hyun-Rok Lee. Skyport location problem for urban air mobility system. Computers & Operations Research, 138:105611, February 2022. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2021.105611 ] [28] Antoine Deza, Kai Huang, and Michael R. Metel. Charging station optimization for balanced electric car sharing. Discrete Applied Mathematics, 308:187--197, February 2022. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dam.2020.01.042 ] [29] Mourad Baïou and Francisco Barahona. Network disconnection games: A game theoretic approach to checkpoint evaluation in networks. Discrete Applied Mathematics, 308:198--208, February 2022. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dam.2020.05.008 ] [30] Mohammad Rahim Akhavan Kazemzadeh, Tolga Bektaş, Teodor Gabriel Crainic, Antonio Frangioni, Bernard Gendron, and Enrico Gorgone. Node-based lagrangian relaxations for multicommodity capacitated fixed-charge network design. Discrete Applied Mathematics, 308:255--275, February 2022. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dam.2020.12.024 ] [31] Chenyi Fu, Ning Zhu, Shoufeng Ma, and Ronghui Liu. A two-stage robust approach to integrated station location and rebalancing vehicle service design in bike-sharing systems. European Journal of Operational Research, 298(3):915--938, May 2022. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2021.06.014 ] [32] Samuel Ridler, Andrew J. Mason, and Andrea Raith. A simulation and optimisation package for emergency medical services. European Journal of Operational Research, 298(3):1101--1113, May 2022. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2021.07.038 ] [33] Jianghong Feng, Su Xiu Xu, Gangyan Xu, and Huibing Cheng. An integrated decision-making method for locating parking centers of recyclable waste transportation vehicles. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 157:102569, January 2022. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2021.102569 ] [34] Yunhui Lin, Yuan Wang, Loo Hay Lee, and Ek Peng Chew. Profit-maximizing parcel locker location problem under threshold Luce model. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 157:102541, January 2022. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2021.102541 ] [35] Hao Fu, William H.K. Lam, Hu Shao, Lina Kattan, and Mostafa Salari. Optimization of multi-type traffic sensor locations for estimation of multi-period origin-destination demands with covariance effects. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 157:102555, January 2022. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2021.102555 ] [36] Huali Sun, Jiamei Li, Tingsong Wang, and Yaofeng Xue. A novel scenario-based robust bi-objective optimization model for humanitarian logistics network under risk of disruptions. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 157:102578, January 2022. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2021.102578 ] [37] Y.K. Agarwal, Y.P. Aneja, and Sachin Jayaswal. Directed fixed charge multicommodity network design: A cutting plane approach using polar duality. European Journal of Operational Research, 299(1):118--136, May 2022. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2021.08.043 ] [38] Gilbert Laporte, Marie-Ève Rancourt, Jessica Rodríguez-Pereira, and Selene Silvestri. Optimizing access to drinking water in remote areas. application to Nepal. Computers & Operations Research, 140:105669, April 2022. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2021.105669 ] [39] Hongwei Xuan, Chao Zhang, Yugang Yu, and Lindong Liu. Sequential recovery of disrupted facilities. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 164:107866, February 2022. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2021.107866 ] [40] Shogo Takedomi, Tsukasa Ishigaki, Yasushi Hanatsuka, and Teppei Mori. Facility location optimization with pMP modeling incorporating waiting time prediction function for emergency road services. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 164:107859, February 2022. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2021.107859 ] [41] Seyed Sina Mohri, Mahdi Nasrollahi, Amir Pirayesh, and Mehrdad Mohammadi. An integrated global airline hub network design with fleet planning. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 164:107883, February 2022. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2021.107883 ] [42] Xiao-Yu Tang, Qinmin Yang, Bernhard Stoevesandt, and Youxian Sun. Optimization of wind farm layout with optimum coordination of turbine cooperations. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 164:107880, February 2022. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2021.107880 ] [43] Ioannis Avgerinos, Ioannis Mourtos, and Georgios Zois. Multi-type facility location in printing and parcel delivery services. Annals of Operations Research, 309(1):365--393, January 2022. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10479-021-04469-3 ] [44] Şakir Karakaya and Sedef Meral. A biobjective hierarchical location-allocation approach for the regionalization of maternal-neonatal care. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 79:101093, February 2022. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2021.101093 ] [45] Sevgi Erdoğan, İsmail Çapar, İbrahim Çapar, and Mohammad Motalleb Nejad. Establishing a statewide electric vehicle charging station network in Maryland: A corridor-based station location problem. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 79:101127, February 2022. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2021.101127 ] [46] Laurine Bénéteau, Jérémie Chalopin, Victor Chepoi, and Yann Vaxès. Medians in median graphs and their cube complexes in linear time. Journal of Computer and System Sciences, 126:80--105, June 2022. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcss.2022.01.001 ] [47] Roberto Pinto and Alexandra Lagorio. Point-to-point drone-based delivery network design with intermediate charging stations. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 135:103506, February 2022. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2021.103506 ] [48] Weiwei Sun, Hu Shao, Ting Wu, Feng Shao, and Emily Zhu Fainman. Reliable location of automatic vehicle identification sensors to recognize origin-destination demands considering sensor failure. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 136:103551, March 2022. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2021.103551 ] [49] Milad Asadpour, Tava Lennon Olsen, and Omid Boyer. An updated review on blood supply chain quantitative models: A disaster perspective. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 158:102583, February 2022. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2021.102583 ] [50] Xiaoting Shang, Guoqing Zhang, Bin Jia, and Mohammed Almanaseer. The healthcare supply location-inventory-routing problem: A robust approach. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 158:102588, February 2022. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2021.102588 ] [51] Elise Henry, Angelo Furno, Nour-Eddin El Faouzi, and David Rey. Locating park-and-ride facilities for resilient on-demand urban mobility. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 158:102557, February 2022. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2021.102557 ] [52] Nader Ghaffarinasab and Bahar Y. Kara. A conditional β-mean approach to risk-averse stochastic multiple allocation hub location problems. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 158:102602, February 2022. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2021.102602 ] [53] Rafael Martí, Anna Martínez-Gavara, Sergio Pérez-Peló, and Jesús Sánchez-Oro. A review on discrete diversity and dispersion maximization from an OR perspective. European Journal of Operational Research, 299(3):795--813, June 2022. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2021.07.044 ] [54] Bita Arabnarmi, Fateme Khalilian, Siamak Kheybari, and Alessio Ishizaka. Sports complex location selection for traditional games. Operations Management Research, 17(1):340--362, December 2023. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12063-023-00434-4 ] [55] Ebrahim Teimoury and Reza Rashid. A hybrid variable neighborhood search heuristic for the sustainable time-dependent truck-drone routing problem with rendezvous locations. Journal of Heuristics, 30(1–2):1--41, November 2023. [ DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10732-023-09520-z ]