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The Optimal Location of Doctors

New England Journal of Medicine, 1982
There is a presumption in the health-care literature that doctors in the United States are geographically maldistributed. Yet there has been little discussion of the appropriate way to evaluate patterns of location. This paper discusses four different criteria for determining the optimal geographic distribution of doctors, all of which are implicit in ...
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The Optimal-Location Query

2005
We propose and solve the optimal-location query in spatial databases. Given a set S of sites, a set O of weighted objects, and a spatial region Q, the optimal-location query returns a location in Q with maximum influence. Here the influence of a location l is the total weight of its RNNs, i.e.
Yang Du, Donghui Zhang, Tian Xia 0001
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Optimizing the Location of a Production Firm

Networks and Spatial Economics, 2009
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Drezner, Zvi, Scott, Carlton H.
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Optimality and Constructions of Locating Arrays

Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice, 2012
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Tang, Yu, Colbourn, Charles J., Yin, Jianxing   +2 more
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Constraints on locational optimization problems

42nd IEEE International Conference on Decision and Control (IEEE Cat. No.03CH37475), 2004
This paper discusses a clustering approach to locational optimization in the context of UAV (unmanned air vehicles) mission planning. In particular, the deterministic annealing (DA) algorithm from the data compression literature is adapted to address such problems, which bears a strong analogy to the statistical physics formulation of the annealing ...
Srinivasa M. Salapaka, A. Khalak, Munther A. Dahleh   +2 more
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On a Constrained Optimal Location Algorithm

Journal of Computational Analysis and Applications, 2003
Summary: In problems of optimal location, one seeks a position or location that optimizes a particular objective function; this objective function typically relates location and distances to a fixed point set. When one's search is restricted to a given set, we refer to this as a constrained optimal location problem.
Huotari, Robert, Prophet, M. P.
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Optimal Consolidation of Polling Locations

Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
Problem definition: Many logistical and financial challenges of facilitating an election lead election officials to consolidate polling locations. However, determining when it is appropriate to consolidate polling locations and how to consolidate polling locations, if necessary, is a difficult and high-stakes decision that influences voter ...
Adam P. Schmidt, Duncan Buell, Laura A. Albert   +2 more
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Impact of the Norm on Optimal Locations

2009
Our research sets in the field of k -facilities location-allocation problems. More precisely, we developed an approach, that aims to assess the sensitivity of centers to different metrics used to locate them, according to various spatial distributions of demands. We start by a concise state of the art.
Marc Ciligot-Travain, Didier Josselin
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Numerical Optimization for the Location of Wastewater Outfalls

Computational Optimization and Applications, 2002
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Lino J. Alvarez-Vázquez, Aurea Martínez, Carmen Rodríguez, Miguel E. Vázquez-Méndez   +3 more
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Optimal Location and Gains of Feedback Controllers at Discrete Locations

AIAA Journal, 1998
The dynamic responses of elastic structures due to vibrations are very important and can produce conditions that can vary from uncomfortable to unsafe. For this reason, optimally designed and placed control devices are very important for the reduction of these vibrations.
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