Emergencies that pose potential threats to our health, life, and properties can happen
anywhere and anytime and may result in huge losses if they are not handled timely and …

Emergency Medical Service systems aim to respond to emergency calls in a timely manner
and provide prehospital care to patients. This paper addresses the problem of locating …

The ready-mix concrete supply chain is highly disruptive due to its product perishability and
Just-in-Time (JIT) production style. A lack of technology makes the ready-mix concrete …

The main concern of any emergency medical services (EMS) in the world is to provide
quality services to emergency calls in the shortest possible time. In this paper, the …

To achieve high performing emergency medical services (EMS), planning is of vital
importance. EMS planners face several challenges when managing ambulance stations and …

Despite extensive research and efforts to optimize Emergency Medical Service (EMS) during
the last four decades, there are still critical and fundamental challenges to study. Operational …

ABSTRACT Emergency Medical Services (EMS) managers are concerned with responding
to emergency calls in a timely manner. Redeployment and dispatching strategies can be …

Disasters cause a huge number of injured patients in a short time while existing emergency
facilities encountered devastation and cannot respond properly. Here, the importance of …

Redundancy aspects related to covering facility location problems are of extreme
importance for many applications, in particular those regarding critical services. For …

E-commerce supply chains are becoming more complex due to increasing global sales, and
product returns from these sales are alarmingly high, highlighting the importance of effective …