期刊名称：International Journal of Engineering Business Management
印刷版ISSN：1847-9790
电子版ISSN：1847-9790
出版年度：2016
卷号：8
DOI：10.1177/1847979016668979
语种：English
出版社：InTech
摘要：The facility location problem (FLP) consists of finding the best location for a facility (service center) to efficiently meet the demands of client points. Studies on the FLP have considered flat or spherical surfaces for computation of distances between these entities. However, the Earth’s surface is not flat or perfectly spherical. This article considers the ellipsoid as a more appropriate model of the Earth’s surface and adapts the FLP to address this assumption. The optimization of the adapted FLP was performed using Solver. Results on geographic instances provided important insights about the logistic financial aspect of the ellipsoid assumption.
