DETERMINATION OF EFFICIENT SOLUTIONS FOR POINT-OBJECTIVE LOCATIONAL DECISION PROBLEMS.

In this paper we study the point-objective problem of locating in R² a facility serving a finite number of customers to minimize the travel time, or the distance, to each customer. Travel times, or distances, are measured by going in the directions of some given vectors which means that, under some conditions, are evaluated by a norm function. An algorithm is proposed to find all the quasi-efficient points and all the efficient points (alternately or strictly), for any given set of travelling directions. Consequently, the problem of efficiency is addressed in a general framework. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]