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p-median problem: a standalone construct

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Operations research

choosing p facility sites on a network to minimize the total weighted distance from demand points to their nearest facility.

In operations research, p-median problem refers to choosing p facility sites on a network to minimize the total weighted distance from demand points to their nearest facility. This meaning comes from Hakimi (1964) in Operations Research.[1]

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References

Hakimi, S. L. (1964). Optimum Locations of Switching Centers and the Absolute Centers and Medians of a Graph. Operations Research, 12(3), 450-459. https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.12.3.450

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