Optimal Facility-Location.
Dr. Christoph Witzgall, the honoree of this Symposium, can count among his many contributions to applied mathematics and mathematical operations research a body of widely-recognized work on the optimal location of facilities. The present paper offers to non-specialists a sketch of that field and its evolution, with emphasis on areas most closely related to Witzgall's research at NBS/NIST.
Applied Math and Statistics Department, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218.
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mail sorting; mesometric facility; metric space; obnoxious facility; optimization