Professor Rick Church and his former graduate student Allan Murray (PhD, 1995; now a Professor of Geographical Sciences at Arizona State University) have recently had a book, titled Business Site Selection, Location Analysis and GIS, published by Wiley (October 2008). According to the Wiley press release:
Responding to the increasingly complex nature of modern commerce and trade, this book integrates location science and modeling with geographical information systems (GIS). As you advance through the text, you’ll discover optimal solutions for practical, real-life “siting” problems. In addition, the authors successfully demonstrate how this integrated approach enables you to:
- Be more productive and more efficient
- Produce better data and models
- Develop better techniques for arriving at a solution
- Provide better graphic representations of location alternatives
Business Site Selection, Location Analysis, and GIS begins with a general introductory chapter followed by introductory chapters on GIS and model building fundamentals. Next, the authors explore how to use models to analyze existing marketing and distribution systems as well as the siting of a single facility. Lastly, the book examines designing a system while making multiple simultaneous siting decisions.
Richard L. Church, PhD, is a Professor of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara, specializing in the analysis of problems defined over space and time, including logistics and transportation, location theory, water resource systems, and urban and environmental systems. Dr. Church has published more than 190 papers and research reports and is the co–founding editor of the journal Location Science, now published as part of Computers and Operations Research.
Alan T. Murray, PhD, is Professor of Geographical Sciences at Arizona State University. Dr. Murray has published more than 130 papers and research reports covering topics in spatial analysis, optimization, location modeling, and urban and regional planning. He has served as the editor of Geographical Analysis since 2002.
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