Survey: Covering problems in facility location: A review

  • Authors:

  • Reza Zanjirani Farahani;Nasrin Asgari;Nooshin Heidari;Mahtab Hosseininia;Mark Goh

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Informatics and Operations Management, Kingston Business School, Kingston University, Kingston Hill, Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey KT2 7LB, UK;Centre for Maritime Studies, 12 Prince George's Park, National University of Singapore, Singapore 118411, Singapore;Department of Industrial Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran;Department of Industrial Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran;School of Business, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119245, Singapore and School of Management, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

  • Venue:
  • Computers and Industrial Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In this study, we review the covering problems in facility location. Here, besides a number of reviews on covering problems, a comprehensive review of models, solutions and applications related to the covering problem is presented after Schilling, Jayaraman, and Barkhi (1993). This survey tries to review all aspects of the covering problems by stressing the works after Schilling, Jayaraman, and Barkhi (1993). We first present the covering problems and then investigate solutions and applications. A summary and future works conclude the paper.