Public service system design with fuzzy parameters of perceived utility

Jaroslav Janáček ()

Central European Journal of Operations Research, 2015, vol. 23, issue 3, 595-606

Abstract: Public service systems are designed to satisfy a public demand on some service. The public is represented here by individual users concentrated at dwelling places situated in a served geographical area. The structure of a public service system is determined by a given number of service center locations, which are to be selected from a finite set of possible locations so that utility perceived by the users be maximal. In this paper, we propose an approach to the public service system design, where the utility perceived by an individual user depends on uncertain parameters. The uncertainty is handled using the theory of fuzzy sets in connection with integer programming tools. The suggested way of public service system designing is accompanied by a computational study. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015

Keywords: Public service system; System utility; Uncertainty; Fuzzy sets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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