Emergency locations problem with stochastic parameters

Abstract

The problem of determining the optimum locations for the emergency facility services in the case in which three possible routes between every pair of customer and service center was discussed in Tharwat and Hassan (2007) and Tharwat, Alkhodary, and Hassan (to appear) assuming deterministic values for the parameters of the problem. In this paper we introduce a description and solution. algorithm for this problem focusing on the case in which the values of the spatial separations among the service centers and the customers are not deterministic but stochastic. The introduced solution is depending on hybridizing Monte-Carlo Simulation technique with Max-Separable optimization technique.