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A Joint Location-Inventory Model

Zuo-Jun Max Shen
Zuo-Jun Max Shen
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Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611
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Collette Coullard
Collette Coullard
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Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
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Mark S. Daskin
Mark S. Daskin
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Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
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Zuo-Jun Max Shen

Zuo-Jun Max Shen

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Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611

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Collette Coullard

Collette Coullard

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Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois

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Mark S. Daskin

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Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois

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Published Online:1 Feb 2003https://doi.org/10.1287/trsc.37.1.40.12823

This article is part of the Transportation Science Classics collection, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the journal.

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Received:July 01, 2000
Accepted:July 01, 2002
Published Online:February 01, 2003

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Zuo-Jun Max Shen, Collette Coullard, Mark S. Daskin, (2003) A Joint Location-Inventory Model. Transportation Science 37(1):40-55.

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