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A short note on locating facilities on a path to minimize load range equity measure

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This work considers the problem of locating \(p\) facilities on the nodes of a path such that the range of the weights assigned to facilities will be as small as possible. We present a polynomial progressive search algorithm to solve the problem.

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  1. School of Administrative Studies, York University, Room 282, Atkinson Building, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON , M3J 1P3, Canada

    Rongbing Huang

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Huang, R. A short note on locating facilities on a path to minimize load range equity measure. Ann Oper Res 246, 363–369 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-014-1617-3

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