{"id":16837,"date":"2020-06-11T07:34:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T07:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cio.edu.umh.es\/?p=16814"},"modified":"2021-07-22T09:50:07","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T07:50:07","slug":"a-continuous-competitive-facility-location-and-design-problem-for-firm-expansion-2020-springer-nature-switzerland-pp-1013-1022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cio.umh.es\/en\/2020\/06\/11\/a-continuous-competitive-facility-location-and-design-problem-for-firm-expansion-2020-springer-nature-switzerland-pp-1013-1022\/","title":{"rendered":"A Continuous Competitive Facility Location and Design Problem for Firm  Expansion (2020), Springer Nature Switzerland, pp. 1013\u20131022,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bogl \u0301arka G.-T \u0301oth (<\/strong><em>University of Szeged<\/em>),<strong>\u00a0Laura Anton-Sanchez<\/strong> (<em>Miguel Hern\u00e1ndez University<\/em>),\u00a0<strong>Jos\u00e9 Fern\u00e1ndez<\/strong> (<em>University of Murcia<\/em>),\u00a0<strong>Juana L. Redondo<\/strong> (<em>University of Almer\u00eda<\/em>) and\u00a0<strong>Pilar M. Ortigosa<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>University of Almer\u00eda<\/em>)<br \/>\n<em><strong>Abstract:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>A firm wants to expand its presence in a given geographical\u00a0region. The available budget can be invested in opening a new facility\u00a0and\/or modifying the qualities of the existing firm-owned facilities. The\u00a0firm can also close some of its existing facilities in order to invest the<br \/>\nmoney formerly devoted to them to its other facilities or to the new one\u00a0(in case it is finally open). A MINLP formulation is proposed to model<br \/>\nthis new problem. Both an exact interval branch-and-bound method and\u00a0an ad-hoc heuristic are proposed to solve the model. Some computational\u00a0results are reported<br \/>\n<em><strong>Keywords:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Facility location; Competition; Quality; MINLP; Interval analysis; Heuristic.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bogl \u0301arka G.-T \u0301oth (University of Szeged),\u00a0Laura Anton-Sanchez (Miguel Hern\u00e1ndez University),\u00a0Jos\u00e9 Fern\u00e1ndez (University of Murcia),\u00a0Juana L. Redondo (University of Almer\u00eda) and\u00a0Pilar M. Ortigosa\u00a0(University of Almer\u00eda)<br \/>\nAbstract:\u00a0A firm wants to expand its presence in a given geographical\u00a0region. The available budget can be invested in opening a new facility\u00a0and\/or modifying the qualities of the existing firm-owned facilities. The\u00a0firm [&#8230;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":6202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[369888],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cio.umh.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cio.umh.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cio.umh.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cio.umh.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cio.umh.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cio.umh.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cio.umh.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cio.umh.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cio.umh.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}