Candidate: Yaser Al-Alawi

Degree of: Doctor of Philosophy

Department: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

Title:Capacitated and Uncapacitated Facilities Location/Allocation Problems with Price Sensitive and Stochastic Demands

Committee: Dr. Bob White, Chair
Dr. Azim Houshyar
Dr. Stephen Butt
Dr. Damodar Golhar

Date: Friday, November 4, 2005, 1:00 p.m.- 3:00 p.m.
C-123, Parkview Campus

Abstract: This research aims to develop a quantitative model that solves the facility Location-Allocation (LA) problem in order to maximize the net profits generated from expected sales. The model will be formulated to adopt the demand uncertainty, sensitive prices, and economies of scale for Capacitated/Uncapacitated facilities. New method is proposed to achieve optimality and overcome the obstacle of large size problems. An approximation procedure has been developed that can find near optimal solution for problems that could not be solved optimally.

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