The literature on location and layout planning has known an exponential growth, especially during the last twenty years. It has become one of the major research subjects in operations research and has connections in various other fields, such as economics, geography, engineering and architecture. This means that the literature is dispersed over many journals, books, working papers, etc. This book is intended as a comprehensive bibliography on the subject. It contains around 1800 references, listed alphabetically by author with a rough classification into thirteen classes: Median resp. warehouse location on networks; Center location on networks; Some other network related problems; General economic aspects of plant location; Quadratic assignment problems; Maximal planar graph problems; Surveys, related problems, general economic aspects of plant layout; Minisum continuous models; Minimax continuous models; Surveys, related problems, general economic aspects of continuous models; Steiner problems, path-, hamiltonian- and routing- location problems; Macroeconomic location-allocation problems; Some textbooks, monographs, dissertations, theses, bibliographies. For each of these classes an index to relevant references is furnished.
Although mainly reflecting the authors’ interests, and thereby relatively incomplete, this bibliography should be of interest to any researcher in need of information on location and layout literature. He will however still have a fair amount of work to do in selecting the references which are really relevant to his work, and this will imply finding copies of many texts, without guarantee of relevance.