New Trends in Mathematical Programming
Subtitle: Homage to Steven Vajda (Applied Optimization)
Contributors: F. Giannessi (Editor); Sándor Komlósi (Editor); Tamás Rapcsák (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: May 31, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780792350361
Subjects: Applied mathematics; Computer Programming; Probability & statistics; Programming (Mathematics); Mathematical Programming (General); Mathematics; Science/Mathematics; Applied; Linear Programming; Mathematics / Applied; Mathematics / Linear Programming; Mathematics-Linear Programming
First sentence: The Fermat-Weber Problem [2], [8], also known as The General Fermât Problem [4], [5], is the following: to locate a single facility in the plane such that the sum of the weighted Euclidean distances to n given points is minimized.