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A modified Weiszfeld algorithm for the Fermat-Weber location problem

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This paper gives a new, simple, monotonically convergent, algorithm for the Fermat-Weber location problem, with extensions covering more general cost functions.

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  1. Department of Statistics, Hill Center, Busch Campus, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA, , , , , , US

    Yehuda Vardi & Cun-Hui Zhang

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  1. Yehuda Vardi
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Received: September 1999 / Accepted: January 2001¶Published online April 12, 2001

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Vardi, Y., Zhang, CH. A modified Weiszfeld algorithm for the Fermat-Weber location problem. Math. Program. 90, 559–566 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00011435

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