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Obnoxious Facility Location

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Facility Location

Part of the book series: Contributions to Management Science ((MANAGEMENT SC.))

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In general, facilities are divided in two groups, the first one are desirable to the nearby inhabitants which try to have them as close as possible such as hospitals, fire stations, shopping stores and educational centers. The second group turns out to be undesirable for the surrounding population, which avoids them and tries to stay away from them such as garbage dump sites, chemical plants, nuclear reactors, military installations, prisons and polluting plants. In this sense, Daskin (1995) discussed that Erkut and Neuman in 1989 distinguished between Noxious (hazardous to health) and Obnoxious (nuisance to lifestyle) facilities, although both can be simply regarded as Undesirable. Moreover, in the last decade, a new nomenclature has been developed to define these oppositions: NIMBY (not in my back yard), NIMNBY (not in my neighbor’s back yard), and NIABY (not in anyone’s back yard).

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Notes

  1. 1.

    These facilities service to demand points; nevertheless, they are undesirable for them.

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    Geographic information system

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    Karush-Kuhn-Tucker optimality conditions

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    Non-Inferior set estimation

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  1. Department of Industrial Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

    Sara Hosseini & Ameneh Moharerhaye Esfahani

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Hosseini, S., Esfahani, A.M. (2009). Obnoxious Facility Location. In: Zanjirani Farahani, R., Hekmatfar, M. (eds) Facility Location. Contributions to Management Science. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2151-2_14

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