Maximizing Payoff in Competitive Facility Location, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Zarrabi Zadeh, Hamid (Supervisor)
Abstract
In the competitive facility location problem, two service providers fight over winning consumers by establishing a series of well-located facilities on the line. The consumers seek their required services from the facility which is closest to them. The order in which service providers locate and build their facilities is as follows: the first service provider establishes k facilities after which the second service provider locates another k facilities and this goes on for m rounds. The payoff of each service provider equals the number of consumers that choose that provider’s facilities to seek service from. In this dissertation, we address different types of this problem and try to analyze...
Cataloging briefMaximizing Payoff in Competitive Facility Location, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Zarrabi Zadeh, Hamid (Supervisor)
Abstract
In the competitive facility location problem, two service providers fight over winning consumers by establishing a series of well-located facilities on the line. The consumers seek their required services from the facility which is closest to them. The order in which service providers locate and build their facilities is as follows: the first service provider establishes k facilities after which the second service provider locates another k facilities and this goes on for m rounds. The payoff of each service provider equals the number of consumers that choose that provider’s facilities to seek service from. In this dissertation, we address different types of this problem and try to analyze...
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