Note--Solving the Generalized Market Area Problem

Michael Todd

Management Science, 1978, vol. 24, issue 14, 1549-1554

Abstract: Lowe and Hurter introduced the "generalized market area problem" of simultaneously determining production levels and distribution patterns at n plants to satisfy demand distributed over a subset of R k . Here we give simpler proofs and extensions of their results. We also show how the problem can be solved using unconstrained optimization techniques.

Keywords: programming: nonlinear algorithms; inventory/production (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1978
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