Blood is a vital resource in the health care context and then its efficient and effective collection, management and distribution is a fundamental task. As blood is drawn on …
The recent remarkable increase in air passenger traffic has been fostering a considerable congestion of the airport facilities. In this context, traditional procedures employed for check …
In austerity times, the general interest to reduce costs and improve efficiency levels often resulted into local cuts to public expenditure and profound reorganizations of existing …
B Afify, A Soeanu, A Awasthi - Expert Systems with Applications, 2021 - Elsevier
Facility location problems (FLP) are often solved as uncapacitated facility location (UFL) instances. Also, typical solution approaches in the literature assume that the established …
European banking groups have been addressing the problem of restructuring their branch networks. Indeed, in the light of the recent digital transition of services, they aim to leverage …
Purpose To avoid sub-optimization in wheat storage centers, one of the most strategic facilities, it is necessary to review and relocate them to be optimized regularly. The present …
I Vrabková - Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2019 - Elsevier
This article deals with the modelling of the static and dynamic technical efficiency under conditions of municipal libraries of municipalities with 1000–5000 inhabitants. The aim of …
Managing waste is a crucial challenge for modern societies. Within the UK government's ambitious environmental targets, municipal Household Waste Recycling Centres represent …
The optimal diversity management problem (ODMP) arises in many application fields when a company, producing a good and/or a service customizable with options, has to satisfy …