Generalized Benders decomposition for competitive facility location with concave demand and zone-specialized variable attractiveness

• Main Authors: Lin, Yun Hui, Tian, Qingyun
• Other Authors: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Engineering::Civil engineering; Competitive Facility Location; Demand Elasticity
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/160295
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We study a competitive facility location problem, in which a company enters a market where competitor’s facilities exist. Customers with elastic buying powers make choices following the gravity rule. Each facility, once open, has an intrinsic fixed attraction to customers. Besides, zone-specialized...