Optimal Location of Semi-Obnoxious Facility Case Study: Location of a Hospital at Adansi North District
| dc.contributor.author | Yeboah, Kwaku | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-03-20T09:38:19Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-04-20T06:56:23Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-03-20T09:38:19Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-04-20T06:56:23Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
| dc.description | A Thesis Submitted to the Department of Mathematics, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Award of Master of Science | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This thesis seeks to locate a hospital at a central position of the Adansi North District. The problem was considered to be a semi-obnoxious facility location problem and modeled as an absolute 1-centre problem on a general network with demand weights. Absolute 1-centre problem seeks to minimize the maximum weighted distance necessary for the people to access the hospital. I focus on the sub-districts and population at the sub-districts spanning over three years. I collected data on the road distance between the sub-districts together with the total peoples population at the Adansi North District. I developed a solution approach based on the decomposition of the network into intervals. I employ some methods of solution including the Floyd Warshall, Local Centre and Regret Analysis, to enable me find a location to place the hospital. In the end, my method found a location on the road link exactly 4000m from Asokwa to Fomena. The minimum weighted distance from the facility to the farthest node is 603668000m. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | KNUST | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://ir.knust.edu.gh/handle/123456789/5839 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.title | Optimal Location of Semi-Obnoxious Facility Case Study: Location of a Hospital at Adansi North District | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
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