ABSTRACT
In the previous two chapters our objective was to find the optimum location for one or more facilities. This location, although optimum in terms of cost or some other goal, may or may not be feasible for locating the facility. In this and in the next few chapters we study a class of problems for which we install the new facilities in one of the known locations. These locations are said to be available because they may have also satisfied other intangible objectives, some of which were discussed in Chapters 1 and 2. The objective here is not only to select the best locations from among those available, but also to assign the customers to these locations in an optimum manner. Such problems are called locationallocation problems.
