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In many service and industrial applications of the facility location problem, the number of required facilities along with allocation of the customers to the facilities are the two major questions that need to be answered. In this paper, a facility location problem with stochastic customer demand and immobile servers is studied. Two objectives considered in this problem are: (1) minimizing the average customer waiting time and (2) minimizing the average facility idle-time percentage. We formulate this problem using queuing theory and solve the model by a genetic algorithm within the desirability function framework. Several examples are presented to demonstrate the applications of the proposed methodology.
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Pasandideh, S.H.R., Niaki, S.T.A. Genetic application in a facility location problem with random demand within queuing framework. J Intell Manuf 23, 651–659 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10845-010-0416-1
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