Boyacı, Burak and Geroliminis, Nikolas (2012) Extended hypercube queueing models for stochastic facility location problems. In: EURO XXV, 2012-07-082012-07-11.
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In this research, we are modeling the facility location problem for systems with many servers and stochastic demand, such as emergency response and on-demand transportation systems, by using spatial queues,specifically hypercube queuing models (HQMs). We are proposing two extended HQMs and a heuristic method which uses an approach similar to dynamic programming. Briefly, the heuristic solves a subproblem for each sub region which is generated by using similarities in demand and then combines them accordingly. Preliminary analysis gives promising results for some real life instances.