With the passage of time, the grains supply chain may go out of optimality and be disrupted,
so it is necessary to redesign the supply chain to avoid incurring irreparable costs. Because …

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 …

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 …

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 …