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A robustness approach to facilities design

MEIR J. ROSENBLATT Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Israel Institute of Technology, Technion, Haifa, 32000, Israel
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HAU L. LEE Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, Stanford University, Stanford, California, 94305, U.S.A.
Pages 479-486 | Received 01 May 1986, Published online: 15 Mar 2007

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