Note—The Single Facility Minimax Distance Problem Under Stochastic Location of Demand
把单设施最小化最大距离选址问题扩展到需求点位置随机的情形，分析了基于期望值准则和观望策略两种决策方式，并证明在一维选址中观望策略能大幅降低最大距离。
This note extends the minimum maximum distance single facility location problem to situations where the locations of prospective demand points are considered to be random variables. Two types of decision are analyzed for this setting under the assumption of independent and identical normal distributions with the same means: locating on the basis of an expected value criterion or adopting a wait-and-see policy. Through the concept of the expected value of perfect information (EVPI), it is shown for one-dimensional location decisions that a substantial reduction in maximum distance may be realized by the adoption of a wait-and-see policy.