Sequential Service Region Design with Capacity-Constrained Investment and Spillover Effect
Service region design determines the geographic coverage of service networks, shaping long-term operational performance. Capital and operational constraints preclude simultaneous large-scale deployment, requiring expansion to proceed sequentially. The resulting challenge is to determine when and where to invest under demand uncertainty, balancing intertemporal trade-offs between early and delayed investment and accounting for network effects whereby each deployment reshapes future demand through inter-regional connectivity. This study addresses a sequential service region design (SSRD) problem incorporating two practical yet underexplored factors: a $k$-region constraint that limits the n...
| Authors | Tingting Chen, Feng Chu, Jiantong Zhang |
|---|---|
| Primary category | cs.LG |
| Published | 9 March 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 9 March 2026 |
Silytics shows public metadata from arXiv and links to the original. Information may be incomplete or out of date. Last refreshed 17 October 2026. Licenses and terms of the original apply to the work itself. Not financial, legal or professional advice.