The key objective of this study is to develop a tool (hybridization or integration of different
techniques) for locating the temporary blood banks during and post-disaster conditions that …

We address the problem of locating primary health care centers integrating the outpatient
medical service as a capacitated service and a set of uncapacitated complementary services …

Car-sharing companies have shown increasing support in the adoption of fuel-efficient cars
to reduce CO2 emissions and to meet heterogeneous demand. In this paper, we consider …

This paper investigates a facility location model that considers the disruptions of facilities
and the cost savings from the inventory risk-pooling effect and economies of scale. Facilities …

Urban last-mile distribution in emerging economies suffers from unique levels of operational
complexity, largely due to the prevailing dominance of the highly fragmented traditional retail …

Emergency response preparedness requires strategic and operational planning. As natural
disasters, disease outbreaks, and bioterrorism continue to threaten public health and the …

Stochastic network design is fundamental to transportation and logistic problems in practice,
yet faces new modeling and computational challenges resulted from heterogeneous …

A production capacity analysis considering market demand and raw materials is very
important to design a new plant. However, in the food processing industry, the supply …

This paper considers a joint facility location-inventory optimisation for green closed-loop
supply chain network design under demand uncertainty. Under the uncoordinated inventory …

This chapter begins with a basic taxonomy of facility location models. This is followed by the
formulation of five classic facility location models: the set covering model, the maximum …