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Abstract Location‐allocation modeling has always been regarded as a core part of spatial analysis. A review of the literature, however, reveals that, nevertheless, publications related to facility location disappeared almost completely from geographic journals in the meantime. It can be assumed that one major reason for this development is the limited capability of the location‐allocation modules implemented in GIS packages that prevents this software from being used to solve the increasingly complex real‐world problems of today. The main purpose of the present article is to demonstrate how location‐allocation problems can be solved efficiently with professional optimization software, more precisely, with the two program packages CPLEX ® and AIMMS ® . Starting from two classic problems, viz., the ‐median and the location set covering problem, the article presents how structurally much more complicated problems, which are far beyond the capabilities of the respective GIS modules, can be solved quite easily with these program packages.
G. Wolf (Tue,) studied this question.