Facility Location

Facility location research focuses on optimally placing facilities (e.g., warehouses, hospitals) to serve clients, balancing factors like cost, fairness, and client satisfaction. Current research explores diverse models incorporating strategic client behavior, capacity constraints, routing limitations, and the use of predictions or machine learning to improve solution quality and efficiency, often employing techniques like mechanism design, cutting-plane methods, and robust optimization. These advancements have implications for various fields, including logistics, healthcare resource allocation, and competitive market analysis, by providing more efficient and equitable solutions to complex real-world problems.