His talk, titled “Recent Advances in Facility Location Modeling,” reviewed the broad field of facility location modeling with a focus on discrete location models. Daskin reviewed covering and median-based location models. He also outlined recent advances in location modeling including integrated two variants of location-inventory models as well as models that capture facility failures. Within the class of facility failures, he summarized both random facility failure and anthropogenic failure models. He ended by outlining directions for future work.

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