Each year, more than 400 natural disasters hit the world. To be more responsive,
humanitarians organize stocks of relief items. It is an issue to know the quantity of items to be …

In this article, a capacitated location allocation problem is considered in which the demands
and the locations of the customers are uncertain. The demands are assumed fuzzy, the …

This paper presents a mathematical model for a facility location-allocation problem in order
to design an integrated supply chain. We consider a supply chain consisting of multiple …

In the present paper, a two-stage fuzzy facility location problem under the Value-at-Risk
(VaR) criterion is considered for controlling the risk in location decisions. Because the fuzzy …

Recently, the transfer point location problem with weighted demand points and uniformly
distributed coordinates has been introduced. In the real world problems, such as disaster …

Resource allocation of the availability of certain departments for dealing with emergency
recovery is of high importance in municipalities. Efficient planning for facing possible …

During the preparedness phase, humanitarians plan their relief response by studying the
potential disasters, their consequences and the existing infrastructures and available …

This paper introduces a spatial location allocation (SLA) method for urban parks based on
Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). PSO is an effective optimization method on the basis of …

The problem of the optimal three-level location allocation of transfer center, processing
factory and distribution center for supply chain network under uncertain transportation cost …

Smart Cities is the future of human habitation, which is evangelized by the Internet of Things
(IoT) technology. We study the municipality of Papagos, which is located in the Smart City of …