caa a22 4500 44584003X CHVBK 20180317145341.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00186-011-0361-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00186-011-0361-6 Optimizing capacity, pricing and location decisions on a congested network with balking [Elektronische Daten] [Hossein Abouee-Mehrizi, Sahar Babri, Oded Berman, Hassan Shavandi] In this paper, we consider the problem of making simultaneous decisions on the location, service rate (capacity) and the price of providing service for facilities on a network. We assume that the demand for service from each node of the network follows a Poisson process. The demand is assumed to depend on both price and distance. All facilities are assumed to charge the same price and customers wishing to obtain service choose a facility according to a Multinomial Logit function. Upon arrival to a facility, customers may join the system after observing the number of people in the queue. Service time at each facility is assumed to be exponentially distributed. We first present several structural results. Then, we propose an algorithm to obtain the optimal service rate and an approximate optimal price at each facility. We also develop a heuristic algorithm to find the locations of the facilities based on the tabu search method. We demonstrate the efficiency of the algorithms numerically. Springer-Verlag, 2011 Facility location nationallicence Congested network nationallicence Balking nationallicence Capacity planning nationallicence Abouee-Mehrizi Hossein Department of Management Sciences, University of Waterloo, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, Canada aut Babri Sahar Department of Industrial Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran aut Berman Oded Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, M5S 3E6, Toronto, Canada aut Shavandi Hassan Department of Industrial Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran aut Mathematical Methods of Operations Research Springer-Verlag 74/2(2011-10-01), 233-255 1432-2994 74:2<233 2011 74 186 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00186-011-0361-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00186-011-0361-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Abouee-Mehrizi Hossein Department of Management Sciences, University of Waterloo, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Babri Sahar Department of Industrial Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Berman Oded Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, M5S 3E6, Toronto, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Shavandi Hassan Department of Industrial Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Mathematical Methods of Operations Research Springer-Verlag 74/2(2011-10-01), 233-255 1432-2994 74:2<233 2011 74 186 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer