A MIXED-INTEGER PROGRAMMING APPROACH FOR THE INTERNATIONAL FACILITIESLOCATION PROBLEM

For many years, facilities location problems have attracted a great de al of attention in the literature. As a result, there is now a variety of methods for solving these problems. However, due to the recent int erest, little research is found relating to the issues concerning inte rnational facilities location problems. Furthermore, in spite of the e xtensive modelling work done on facilities location, little modelling research exists on location problems. Provides a capacitated multi-per iod, 0-1 mixed integer programming formulation for the international f acilities location problem and discusses its applications to an actual to demonstrate not only how the model on be applied in practice but a lso to show its potential benefits when compared to other methods.