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It is critical to locate facilities in the retail operations, especially in competitive environment. In most competitive location models available in the literatures, demand is assumed to be fixed or random regardless of market conditions. However, demand is related to the number of facilities, service capacity or the distance from the facility to the customer, which is considered in few literatures. In this paper, a competitive multi-facility location model with fixed demand is established and then market expansion is taken into account in the model. The Plant Growth Simulation Algorithm (PGSA) is put forward to solve the two models and then a small numerical example is given. Compared to the problem with fixed demand, the optimum solution of facility location is variable and the profit increases obviously with market expansion considered.

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Abstract
 1. Introduction
 2. Problem Description and Modeling
  2.1. Problem Description
  2.2. Notation Explanation
  2.3. Competitive Multi-Facility Location Model
 3. Solving the Location Model with Plant Growth Simulation Algorithm (PGSA)
 4. Computational Studies
 5. Conclusions
 Acknowledgements
 References

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저자

• Guoying Wu [ School of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiaotong University, China ]
• Jianqin Zhou [ School of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiaotong University, China ]
• Bei Wang [ School of Public Administration, University of International Business and Economics, China ]

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간행물

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• 간행물명

  International Journal of Control and Automation

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  월간

• pISSN

  2005-4297

• 수록기간

  2008~2016

• 십진분류

  KDC 505 DDC 605