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Congestion Service Facilities Location Problem with Promise of Response Time
Joint Authors
Hu, Dandan
Hu, Wenshan
Liu, Zhi-Wei
Source
Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Issue
Vol. 2013, Issue 2013 (31 Dec. 2013), pp.1-11, 11 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2013-11-13
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
11
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
In many services, promise of specific response time is advertised as a commitment by the service providers for the customer satisfaction.
Congestion on service facilities could delay the delivery of the services and hurts the overall satisfaction.
In this paper, congestion service facilities location problem with promise of response time is studied, and a mixed integer nonlinear programming model is presented with budget constrained.
The facilities are modeled as M/M/c queues.
The decision variables of the model are the locations of the service facilities and the number of servers at each facility.
The objective function is to maximize the demands served within specific response time promised by the service provider.
To solve this problem, we propose an algorithm that combines greedy and genetic algorithms.
In order to verify the proposed algorithm, a lot of computational experiments are tested.
And the results demonstrate that response time has a significant impact on location decision.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Hu, Dandan& Liu, Zhi-Wei& Hu, Wenshan. 2013. Congestion Service Facilities Location Problem with Promise of Response Time. Mathematical Problems in Engineering،Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1032113
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Hu, Dandan…[et al.]. Congestion Service Facilities Location Problem with Promise of Response Time. Mathematical Problems in Engineering No. 2013 (2013), pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1032113
American Medical Association (AMA)
Hu, Dandan& Liu, Zhi-Wei& Hu, Wenshan. Congestion Service Facilities Location Problem with Promise of Response Time. Mathematical Problems in Engineering. 2013. Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1032113
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1032113